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Re: 4.2 package scheme

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Nov 9 11:58:06 1997

To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 09 Nov 1997 11:56:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of Sun, 9 Nov 1997 05:45:14 -0500

Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:

> - Since makepackage created all new .spec files, each rpm was created
> as revision 1.  This was unintentional.  If I had thought about it, I
> would probably have used a higher revision number than whatever was
> last used by Aaron's mkallspecs script.  However, I don't think it's a
> big deal, since the packages all have new version numbers anyway.

Unfortunately, packages like athena-emacs now have *lower* version
numbers.  On the other hand, some of the betas had enough other
problems that beta users may want to completely reinstall anyway.  At
any rate, I went ahead and updated small-gods.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]

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