On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. We should just use release epochs, people might hate them for whatever reasons, but they would easily prevent such issues from happing. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
