Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 14:16 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On 2013-04-02, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:27:43 +0000 (UTC)
> > Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Misusing names does not allow all of that.
> >
> > misusing? Is this, again, another metaphor? Please speak plainly. What
> > do you mean here? Where is the misuse?
> >
> foo1, foo2, foo3 -- there is no ordering in the upgrade path, you cannot say
> foo2 or newer. From my point of view mangling package names (see
> scl_utils) is misuse.

 To re-iterate what I wrote before, if you want to be able to say "foo2
or foo3" there is a defined mechanism for that ... all packages you want
to require use "Provide: foo-api-2-or-higher" and you require that.

-- 
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel





[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux