Bug 469487

The problem is that the Release tag was incorrectly bumped. It should have been
1%{?dist}.1, not 2%{%dist}. Now there MUST be a F9 upgrade bumping the Release to at least 2%{%dist} even if there are no other changes, there's no other way to fix this. And this bug MUST be fixed, no excuses.

And next time, bump the release version AFTER the disttag (e.g. 1%{?dist}.1, 1%{?dist}.2 etc.) if you make changes to / bump Release on one branch only.

(In reply to comment #1)
> ...there's no other way to fix this

Can't I just upload the version of hal-info in rawhide to F9?

> And this bug MUST be fixed, no excuses.

I wasn't going to make any.

> And next time, bump the release version AFTER the disttag (e.g. 1%{?dist}.1,
> 1%{?dist}.2 etc.) if you make changes to / bump Release on one branch only.

I don't know about dcbw, but I'm really hesitant to upload new packages to F8 anyway, as it's such an old release now, and I don't run it myself anymore.

> Can't I just upload the version of hal-info in rawhide to F9?

Yes, pushing a package with a higher Version will also fix this.

However, you have to be careful not to introduce a higher EVR in F9 than in Rawhide (otherwise you fix one EVR problem and introduce another), so if you need to make some F9-only changes, make sure you bump Release only after the disttag.

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No thanks for not fixing this serious upgrade path issue with a trivial fix in
over 7 months!

hal-info-20080607-2.fc8                   dist-f8-updates       rhughes
hal-info-20080607-1.fc9                   dist-f9-updates       dcbw
hal-info-20090202-1.fc10                  dist-f10-updates      rhughes

F8->F10 and F9->F10 upgrade paths are OK (so it can get closed at F9 EOL), but
F8->F9 is still broken and could be trivially fixed by issuing an F9 update
with an EVR > 20080607-2.fc8 (and < 20090202-1.fc10 or you'll introduce another upgrade path issue).

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