On środa 11 sierpień 2004 01:53, James Olin Oden wrote: > Because, typically, epoch is used to deal with radical changes to versions > such that there would be no sane way to determine generically from the > version that this package should upgrade another package. That said, if > you used a different epoch per distro then you would have to have a > different epoch per distro per major version format change. Other than > that using to deliniate the distro would not give you what you wanted. > Say RedHat had epoch 0, Fedora had epoch 1 and Suse epoch 2, then that > would mean that a RedHat package would always win, but if you were on a > Fedora or Suse system that is probably not what you want. I didn't know that inter-distro compatibility is an issue. Could someone that uses packages from various distributions tell me if it gives any major headaches? -- In the year eighty five ten God is gonna shake his mighty head He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down, and start again _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
