Re: RPM and Stoopid versioning schemes

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On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 23:43:21 -0400, Al Potter <apotter@spankingnuns.com>
wrote:

>CONTEXT:  All rpm builds are controlled by the .spec file.  If versioning is 
>weird, it's weirdness is specific, and on a per-package basis.

To be precise, per-package *name*, which is what I think makes it at least
possible to solve.

>Build a framework (macro?) in RPM to allow the packager to specify that THIS 
>packages versions increment THIS way (like an enumeration type variable in 
>ADA).

But this is the same as James' suggestion of having packages provide a
version compare function. What happens when two packages of the same thing
provide different functions?

Ganesh



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