> > Ahh, ok. I thought it was yumish as 1) rpm seems to hide this, as it > doesn't show up in -qi listings or files names 2) it's parsed separately > in header.info... but if it's not in the file name, I guess you'd have > to do that. > the filename has little if ANY bearing on what the actual information in the rpm is. typically they match up. - they don't have to. > I guess you parse it separately (and encode it back into the .hdr > filename) in case they have two rpms with identical version but > different epochs? Must be confusing for users who think two files are > the same (as they have the same name) but differ by epoch. Oh well. true enough - thats why yum never trusts the filename until yum-arch has read through it and gotten the info out of the filename. > I guess I'll have to fix my yum-sucker to not clobber the epochs in > addition to the other things you've suggested. and how about calling it yum-get or yum-sync or some such thing. yum-suck just gives me the worries :) -sv
