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Re: Trial git RPM's..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:02


On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
One last issue with building packages.  Some distros are still shipping
GNU interactive tools so git as a package name for the rpm is problematic.
At the very least it is extremely confusing that git-0.99 is a more
recent package that git-4.3.20.
Ahh. Dang, I should have remembered this. We should call the rpm 
"git-core-0.99", not just "git-0.99".

Chris, I assume this is just changing the name in the spec-file from "git" 
to "git-core"?

		Linus
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