On 06/15/2015 01:36 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> You can set arbitrary version numbers on subpackages, so this isn't >> really an issue. > > Blimey, so you can. That's a pretty obscure feature of RPM! I wonder > if any packages use it? It's quite common, a quick count yields 5257 subpackages which have different VR from their source package (as encoded in the source RPM header field, for lack of a better data source). The largest contributor is texlive, where the source RPM uses a Subversion revision as its version, and the individual packages use years. lvm2 uses it as well, so we can assume this functionality is actually pretty well-tested. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
