On 2002.03.27 Guillaume Rousse wrote: >http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/advanced.html#PREVERSIONS-NAMING >but they are actually plenty of counter-examples in distro: >openssh-3.1p1
In this case, the 'p' comes from 'portable', the portable version of openssh, to make it distinct from the native-optimized OpenBSD version (which is the 'original' one). >openssl-0.9.6c This also is not a pre-release code. That is a bad original name from the ssl developers. Think of it as 0.9.6.c or 0.9.6.3. If rpm compares digits in 'alpha' way instead of 'numeric', perhaps this code could be written as 0.9.6.c... By. -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.19-pre4-jam2 #1 SMP Mon Mar 25 01:34:14 CET 2002 i686
