From rk at raimokoski.com  Thu May  5 15:01:02 2005
From: rk at raimokoski.com (Raimo Koski)
Date: Thu May  5 15:01:06 2005
Subject: [Lel3-x86_64_update_announce_discuss] The story behind multiple new
	nasm versions
In-Reply-To: <200505051022.j45AM0BP022853@www.raimokoski.com>
References: <200505051022.j45AM0BP022853@www.raimokoski.com>
Message-ID: <427A0AFE.9060805@raimokoski.com>

lel3_upgrade_announce@www.raimokoski.com wrote:

> nasm-0.98.35-3.EL3.i386.rpm
> nasm-0.98.38-3.EL4.i386.rpm
> nasm-doc-0.98.35-3.EL3.i386.rpm
> nasm-doc-0.98.38-3.EL4.i386.rpm
> nasm-rdoff-0.98.35-3.EL3.i386.rpm
> nasm-rdoff-0.98.38-3.EL4.i386.rpm

The reason why there are two versions is historic. The original RHEL 3.0 
was released without nasm. It was however needed to build some packages, 
so Lineox added 7. Sep. 2004 version 0.98.38 to LEL. Red Hat had omitted 
nasm apparenty by accident because it was added later. Update 4 had 
version 0.98.35-3, but there hasn't been any announcement about it on 
the RHSA mailing list, so it is difficult to track when it was initially 
added by Red Hat.

Version 0.98.35-3.EL3 was released by Red Hat as an update for RHEL 3.0 
and version 0.98.38-3.EL4 for RHEL 4.0. Binaries released by Lineox are 
both built on LEL 3.0, so regardless of the version installed on your 
system, it can be updated by apt-get or yum.

In the future 0.98.38-3.EL4 will be unsupported and the latest Always 
current has version 0.98.35-3.EL3. Version 0.98.38-3.EL4 binaries will 
be removed from Lineox LEL 3.0 repositories one week from now.

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Raimo Koski  http://www.lineox.net/  http://www.raimokoski.com/