Re: RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC
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Msg-id 200104081414.f38EEn230854@linda.lfix.co.uk
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In response to Re: RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Responses Re: RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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The Hermit Hacker wrote:or development: >> >> That means the final release of 7.1 will be called 7.2.  Bugfix releases
>>will then be 7.2.x.  Meanwhile new development versions will be 7.3.x >> which will finally be released as 7.4, and
soon... > >Not in this life time ... we are not going to move to a Linux-like >development cycle ... *groan* >
 

Harrumph!!

Well, pick some scheme that gives a rational set of numbers for
distributions.  The current one is only good for installation
by hand!

(Mind you, my other major package is progressing from -1.00 to 0,
so that -0.76 is followed by -0.75.  Not that I recommend you to 
follow _that_ example.)

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