2009/11/20 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Stu Tomlinson wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 22:01, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>>> 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? >> >> Which part of "Hacking it up with special cases will lead nowhere but >> pain." confused you? >> > > The part where an obvious hack would not cause a confusion confused me. > >> It's a hack. It's Fedora-specific, so doesn't belong in RPM (or >> anything else). And RPM will no longer produce predictable versioning. >> > > My proposed hack's outcome is quite predictable. > But version comparison behaviour will cease to be consistent across distributions. -- Mat Booth -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
