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Kooothor

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[answered] What is the number after the version of a package ?

Hello,

I wonder : what is the difference between postgresql-libs-9.0.2-1 et postgresql-libs-9.0.2-2 ?

Also, how can we know if an upgrade is a security one or not ? (except by trying to find the changelog and read it) ?

Last edited by Kooothor (2010-12-22 09:52:04)

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dyscoria

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Re: [answered] What is the number after the version of a package ?

This is the "pkgrel". This is taken from this wiki page:

pkgrel
The release number of the package specific to Arch Linux. This value allows users to differentiate between consecutive builds of the same version of a package. When a new package version is first released, the release number starts at 1. As fixes and optimizations are made to the PKGBUILD file, the package will be re-released and the release number will increment by 1. When a new version of the package comes out, the release number resets to 1.

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Re: [answered] What is the number after the version of a package ?

Hello,

I wonder : what is the difference between postgresql-libs-9.0.2-1 et postgresql-libs-9.0.2-2 ?

Also, how can we know if an upgrade is a security one or not ? (except by trying to find the changelog and read it) ?

http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … 94c30358dc

it fixes this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22173

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Re: [answered] What is the number after the version of a package ?

The package release number (pkgrel) may be incremented for several reasons, e.g. to add missing dependencies, to rebuild the package against a newer version of a library, to include a patch in the build process.

Usually a changelog will be the only way to find out why a package was rebuilt, but you can usually find those easily  here.

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Kooothor

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Re: [answered] What is the number after the version of a package ?

Ok, thank you for your answers

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