It would be nice if packages would include an implicit epoch tag, so a package build on 9.2 will always be newer than one for 9.1 with the same version and release tags.
Hmmm, this is a neat idea. At present, any mdk rpm you grab off the net, you have no idea what mandrake release it is built for.
Would that work, having epoch: 9.2 in every package? We use epoch so rarely that it might be okay, and we could use 9.2.1 if we REALLY needed a new epoch, right?
Of course this would require a total rebuild of the distro, edited by hand... no small task. Maybe this could be done at the same time that we switch to a full-distro rebuild robot that would force everyone to fix their buildrequires (me especially).
Austin
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Austin Acton
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
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