On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 18:07 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:16:39 -0800, Adam wrote: > > > I was going to suggest what seems an obvious alternative way to do what > > Christian wants, without changing anything in rpm. Instead of: > > > > foobar-1.0-1.fc12.x86-64 > > > > have: > > > > foobar-fc12-1.0-1.x86-64 > > Insufficient. > > Making %dist most-significant is only sufficient for ordinary %dist > upgrades, but doesn't replace everything %epoch is needed for: fixing > issues with upstream versioning schemes, reverting accidental upgrades, > resetting %version as a result of software project splits. I didn't mean it as a replacement for epoch, I meant it as a way of handling the initial problem. Of course, it has problems in that regard too, which is why I don't actually support doing anything like this. -- 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
