[lsb-discuss] switching numbering for data-based LSB snapshots

[Wichmann, Mats D]

LSB development "snapshot" builds are numbered using
{baseversion}-{datecode}.  There's been a little irritation for a
long while that if you're running with these, then a released
version of the same {baseversion} compares less, and so won't
be presented as a candidate for installation.

Recently it was requested to make a tweak to this, which
is documented in bug 3599.

To see if it's going to work out, I made a change for build_env
(which produces lsb-build-base, lsb-build-cc, lsb-build-desktop).
However... the new scheme compares less than the old
scheme, so the first round isn't being presented as an upgrade.
Sound familiar?  :)

To shift to this line of versions, if you're using a yum-based distro,

yum distro-sync

will do the trick, it will "downgrade" the three packages to the
ones in the repo, and this is what distro-sync means.

This ought only to affect those who regularly play with the
snapshots and is not of much interest on the wider scale.