libxml2: Packages changed without updating version number (at some time in the past)?
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@cygwin.com
Sun Aug 17 16:07:00 GMT 2003
Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net> wrote:
> I just ran into an interesting problem with libxml2. Based on the contents
> of my local package cache, and the current contents of the mirror network,
> it seems that the libxml2 packages were updated without bumping the version
> number at some point in the past. I was just looking for comfirmation of
> this. In case is helps jog the maintainer's memory, the previous 2.5.7-1
> packages contained "prefix=/netrel/install" in the xml2-config script,
> whereas the current ones contain "prefix=/usr".
IIRC, this is down to the 'test' version and the (then final) version both
being 2.5.7-1 . In the 'test' version I forgot to add
make DESTDIR="..." ...
whereas the final had that fix.
-- Elfyn
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