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Re: RPM emacs-ath-19.30-5 is broken

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Sun Mar 23 23:23:00 1997

To: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
Cc: warlord@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Mar 1997 20:57:49 EST."
             <199703240157.UAA18455@cutter-john.mit.edu> 
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 23:22:48 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>


>  So, I looked into this a bit more closely, and made the enclosed overall
> patch to emacs-ath.spec. I reconstructed the RPMs on cutter using "rpm -bb
> SPECS/emacs-ath.spec" and copied the resulting rpms from
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 into our RedHat-Athena rpm directory.
> (Derek's most recent emacs-ath RPMs still exist, renamed to *.bad .)

When updating RPM's, never make a new one without updating the version
number.  If you don't and people have already upgraded to it, they'll
be unable to upgrade to the fixed version until the following
version comes out.     

	Erik


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