[ATrpms-users] [repo-coord] ATrpms: rhX, rhfcY becomes RHLX, fcY

[Dag Wieers]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> before FC1 launched the typical disttag initials to use for Red Hat
> Linux was simply rh, e.g.
> 
>        ..., rh7.3, rh8.0, rh9 (or sometimes w/o the dot)
> 
> When FC1 was released there was a debate on what to do with the new
> disttags, because "fc" < "rh" in rpm's eyes. Several solutions turned
> out:
> 
> a) no disttags at all (mostly at Fedora Core)
> b) -, "fc1", "fc2", ... don't care about RHL (mostly at Fedora Extras)
> c) "rh9", "rhfc1", ... (at first all 3rd party repos, now about the
>    half)
> d) "<N>.rh9", "<N+1>.fc1" (Dag/Dries/fresh/rpmforge)
> e) "fc0.9", "fc1", ... (nowhere, only suggested)
> f) "RHL9", "fc1", ... (nowhere, only suggested)

d) is no longer true for RPMforge/FreshRPMs . With FC5 we switched to b).

Newer packages with a newer version/release do not have a dist-version 
anymore. Only the dist-tag.

Kind regards,
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