From: | "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC |
Date: | 2001-04-14 08:56:22 |
Message-ID: | 200104140856.f3E8uMU16992@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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"Len Morgan" wrote:
>>> Lamar Owen writes:
>>>
>>> > 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.
>
>Couldn't this be fixed (in future releases) with rcX and BetaX? I believe
>r > B.
or, for that matter, by betaX rcX. But we have still gone from rc4 to
nothing in the just-released 7.1, which is backward as far as packaging
systems are concerned.
$ dpkg --compare-versions 7.1 gt 7.1rc4 || echo BSD style does not work!
BSD style does not work!
Marc, _please_ make the next release greater than its betas!
As far as Debian is concerned, 7.1 will be known as 7.1release. Sigh...
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