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

Lamar Owen wrote:
>Last time I looked at the documentation for the serial tag, its use was
>strongly discouraged. But that _has_ been awhile -- maybe it could be
>useful. But I would prefer the whole version numbering thingtobe fixed,
>as the Debian packages have the same issue -- and I don't know if .deb
>has an analog to Serial:.

We have epochs, that is, the package version is preceded by an integer
and a colon, which overrides every other part of the version and release
number. However, if I ever use an epoch, I will be stuck with epochs for ever;
so I don't want to start.

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