We discussed this earlier during the package naming thread on fedora-devel-list, but we should come to an agreement on this now since this is one of the many questions we need to decide upon.
Should we force all Fedora Legacy users to upgrade to the latest version of RPM for their distribution?
RH7.3 -> rpm-4.0.5 RH8 -> rpm-4.1.1 RH9 -> rpm-4.2.1
Why?
1) Long term supportability. RH8's rpm-4.1 is completely broken and unsupportable.
2) Allows us to use a common package naming scheme with all distributions from RH7.3 through FC.
Warren
I am in favor of this on one condition. That the rpm's built on the latest version for their distribution, also work with the initial rpm that was released with the distribution.
Why?
Because the installer uses the rpm that came with the initial release. If the rpm's built with the new rpm don't work with the old rpm, then when you do an install you're going to have problems.
This really should be fairly easy to test, but it's a test that should be made.
Troy Dawson
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