On Wednesday, 16 March 2005, at 11:18:42 (-0800), Frank Cusack wrote: > But it is necessary. Not at all. > I maintain local versions of vendor rpms (because so much code is > broken). The only way that I can prevent a future vendor rpm > version from updating my version, sanely, is to use Epoch. If Epoch is the answer, you have failed to adequately comprehend the question. :-) > It is *meant* to override standard versioning practices. No kidding. I could name any number of mis-features in current software. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Believe what you will...until experience changes your mind." -- Mira Furlan (Ambassador Delenn), Babylon Five _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
