On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:01:54PM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>> Is RPM so hard to hack to work this around? >>> >> There's many things that need to be changed in rpm but IMHO this isn't one >> of them. RPM produces predictable versioning. Hacking it up with special >> cases will lead nowhere but pain. >> > >Suppose we hack the RPM, such that right before RPM does the EVR check >when updating a package, it will take the Release string and does a >'s@.fc\([0-9]\)@.f\1@' for both the old and the new package? Can you >give me an example where this might lead to a problem? Yes. The part where you said "hack the RPM". Carrying a Fedora specific hack like that in our RPM package for _no_ good reason seems pretty silly. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
