Re: [WBEL-devel] WhiteBox Version - was Re: Notice: Mirror of mirror.physics.ncsu.edu

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 20:05 -0800, bishop wrote:
> John,
> 
> What version is whitebox?  I was sure 3.0 or 3.0r1 or R1, but I noticed 
> this disagreement:
> 
> root wrote:
> > Mirrored mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/SRPMS (mirror.physics.ncsu.edu:/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/SRPMS -> /var/ftp/pub/mirrors/whitebox/3.0/SRPMS.updates) Mirror of mirror.physics.ncsu.edu @ 10 Dec 104 03:02
> > Got httpd-2.0.46-44.ent.WB1.src.rpm 6173933 48
> 
> Explain to me the significance of the '1'?  I assumed that the 1 was 
> supposed to be a 3, unless the 3 is silent.   Back in the day when we 
> were doing the distro, we tried to use the distro number as well for 
> extra differentiation, thus my assumption the 1's erroneous.

I believe the "1" indicates the first WB release of that version/rev/rh-
update.  This is so if the original WB build was bad then you could do a
WB2 version of the package.

That's how I handle my customizations of local packages.

Regards,
Paul Berger