Re: new betas for GGV and GHex...

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

On 02 Mar 2001 10:28:22 -0500, jacob berkman wrote:
> On 02 Mar 2001 14:25:13 +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> > Jaka Mocnik <jaka gnu org> writes:
> > 
> > > ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/ghex/ghex-1.2-beta2.tar.gz
> > > 
> > > and
> > > 
> > > ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/ggv/ggv-1-0-beta2.tar.gz
> > 
> > Argl...  Next time, please drop the dash in front of the string "beta"
> > ;)  rpm doesn't like dashes in version numbers.
> 
> well, if you are using the "beta" part in the version number you will be
> screwed when the real one comes out, since 1.2beta2 has a higher version
> # than 1.2.
> 
> i'm sure you knew this though.

Anybody running the betas should be competent to 'rpm -Uvh
--oldpackage'.  The hyphen in the string just makes it a bitch to
package at all, rather than something that can easily be overcome.  I
personally think that it should have been 0.9 or something, but that's
just me.

    Greg