In practice, one should never see the problem anyway.Best practice: o Version your rpms, so that this bug is not triggered. Therefore a sane versioning scheme not jumping back and forth from alpha to numeric segments is unevitable. See also the lengthy thread about it with the disttags for the RH family finally recommended as
rh7.3 < rh8.0 < rh9 < rhfc1
Since only <=rh8.0 is affected, you shouldn't ever have the opportunity to be comparing versions of Fedora packages, so the
rh73 < rh80 < rh90 < 1
disttags are fine as far as I'm concerned. Ie, the only time 1 with be compared with rhxx is when you are using Fedora Core (with rpm-4.2.x).
Am I missing something?
-- Rex
