On Monday 02 September 2002 12:07, Chip Turner wrote: > That's strictly opinion. The people (including non-Red Hat employees) > that work deeply with RPM daily don't really agree with your opinion. > > > RPM treats version components as integers, not floating point > numbers. That's the core of it. So: I know, people have already said that. However, it yields results that are clearly wrong. Nobody would think version 0.001 was the same as version 0.1. Therefore a better way is needed. If necessary, tighten the rules about what versions are allowed, and maybe rules for transforming non-compliant versions already chosen by developers to versions that can be compared. Somewhere there also needs to be something that flags "This package is compatible with Red Hat Linux xx.yy" so that Mandrake, SuSE and others' packages will not satisfy dependencies unless rebuilt. That may reduce the need for "mdk" and such in package names. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
