On 7/5/06, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok; a more realistic example: you have an application for Fedora Extras which requires bind, version 9.3 or later. What would you write? a) Requires: bind >= 9.3? b) Requires: bind >= 24:9.3? When your answer is a): this requirement would be fulfilled by FE3 with its bind 9.2.1 too, so this answer would be wrong. When your answer is b): what would you gain with it? Epochs are a per-environment thing and not bound to program versions. E.g. SuSE or Mandriva might have bind-1:9.4 packages. Because the Fedora Extras packages are for a specific environment (FE4, FE5, devel) only, you can be sure that the needed program versions are available there and the explicit version is not needed.
The answer is a. If it doesn't work on FE3 then I would be surprised, and it should be fixed by the legacy team for FE3. Why would you ever use b? I think you might be confused on the versioning, you do realize that a version of 9:3 is different than a version of 9.3 correct? -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
