On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 00:58 +0100, Christian Iseli wrote: > Hi folks, > > I also got bitten by the "FC11 packages 'newer' than FC12" hickup, and > while going through the yum remove/add maneuver I pondered: > - is there ever a time when, while upgrading from Fedora n to Fedora > n+1 I would expect a package .fcn to be kept instead of getting > the .fcn+1 instance ? > My answer was: no > > So I wondered if there would be a simple way to make this happen > regardless of whether a maintainer blunders and gets things slightly > out of sync between the 2 or 3 current Fedora releases. To me, this is the wrong fix. The problem here isn't RPM's version comparison logic, which is perfectly sound. Instead of nerfing up RPM comparisons, which are already full of enough hidden mines, we should just improve Fedora's package versioning conventions so this doesn't happen, or at least happens less often. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
