On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 15:50, Mariusz Mazur wrote: > On Åroda 11 sierpieÅ 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? I never have these issues, but I apparently some people already get headaches when I say so here ;-) _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
