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RPM 4.10 released

RPM 4.10 released

Posted May 28, 2012 20:07 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: RPM 4.10 released by jamesh
Parent article: RPM 4.10 released

rpm separates the upstream source file name from the package versioning (you can define the source name from package metadata, but it's not a hard link), so you don't need to play games to reuse the same files

Now really the pre-version is put at the end of the rpm package version because that's the last element to sort when comparing packages (name-epoch-version-release), I suppose it could be made explicit with a new metadata field for informational version strings (sorted after name, epoch, software version, package release), but few people seem to miss it right now


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