On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:02:47PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > Is anyone opposed to that? Sounds like a very reasonable proposal. I'll note that <cough>Debian</cough> packages include a minimum compatible standards (version) number. The RPM equivalent would I suppose be something like: Min-RPM: 4.4 RPM would check this and refuse to run if its version number was less than this, and of course older versions of RPM would fail completely when they see this header[1]. 'Course we'd have to educate people not to just remove the header or diddle around with the version number at random 'until it works'. Which maybe makes the proposal not completely idiot proof. Rich. [1] Or do they ..? I checked and they give this error: error: line 7: Unknown tag: Min-RPM: 1.1 -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
