Re: RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
>> One quick note -- since 'R' < 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
>> install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
>> numbers -- 7.1RC3 < 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with
>> --oldpackage if you have a 7.1beta RPM already installed.
>
>Huh? I always thought that ASCII R was greater then b ... *confused* in
>the future, would it help to have 7.2Beta? Or am I missing something? :)

R = 82
b = 98

so b comes after R, and `blank' comes before either!

Therefore 7.1 < 7.1RC < 7.1beta !

As I suggested in another mail, let us switch to using even minor
numbers for releases and odd ones for development:

That means the final release of 7.1 will be called 7.2. Bugfix releases
will then be 7.2.x. Meanwhile new development versions will be 7.3.x
which will finally be released as 7.4, and so on...

For current 7.1, the Debian releases are 7.1beta, 7.1cRC, 7.1final,
which is both cumbersome and confusing to those who are looking for
an exact match.

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