On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 at 5:04am (-0500), Vincent Cojot wrote: > > Hello list, hello redhat packagers (if any are reading this list), >
[...] > Here is what I mean (from RHSA-2001:106-08): > > RH7.1 RH7.0 RH6.2 > Prev. sendmail verion: 8.11.6-1.7.1 8.11.6-1.7.0 8.11.6-1.6.x > > This sounds logical (1.7.1 sounds like version 1 of the package and it's > for rh7.1, 1.7.0 is version 1 of the package and it's for rh7.0, 1.6.x is > version 1 of the package and it's for all rh6.x versions - where x is 0,1 > or 2). > > Following this logic, it sounds logical that the latest sendmail update > from RH is numbered like this: > > RH7.1 RH7.0 > New sendmail verion: 8.11.6-2.7.1 8.11.6-2.7.0 > > But for some obscure logical reason, instead of calling the same update > "8.11.6-2.6.x" for RH6.x, it was decided by someone at RH to call the > update "8.11.6-1.6.y"? And even worse, in order to propagate the "error", > the same sendmail update for 5.x versions is also called ""8.11.6-1.5.y". > I didn't diff'ed the changelogs between the sendmail packages for all of > the dists but if the reason behind the numbering is that the fixes are > different, then these updates should not be part of the same RHSA > advisory.. I can't speak to the general issue except to say that the basic scheme being that 'bigger' is 'newer'. But in this particular case there was already a sendmail-8.11.6-1.6.x (earlier release of the same alert I beleive) so the next one had to be sendmail-8.11.6-1.6.y and I think that illistrates the problem... it's just too damn hard to predict the future. That said - I can't help but agree.. the version number is a signifant pain buto long as '$old cmp $new' still gives the right result I isn't too bad. M. P.S. I can definitly sympathise with the rpm4 problem with rh6.2 - at WC we rebuild all the recent redhat errata on a rpm3 system for folding back into our kickstart installs. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. -- WebCentral Pty Ltd Australia's #1 Internet Web Hosting Company Level 1, 96 Lytton Road. Network Operations - Systems Engineer PO Box 4169, East Brisbane. phone: +61 7 3249 2500 Queensland, Australia. pgp key id: 0x900E515F _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
