On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 22:01, Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fed...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> There's many things that need to be changed in rpm but IMHO this isn't one >> of them. RPM produces predictable versioning. Hacking it up with special >> cases will lead nowhere but pain. > > Suppose we hack the RPM, such that right before RPM does the EVR check > when updating a package, it will take the Release string and does a > 's...@.fc\([0-9]\)@.f\1@' for both the old and the new package? Can you > give me an example where this might lead to a problem?
Which part of "Hacking it up with special cases will lead nowhere but pain." confused you? It's a hack. It's Fedora-specific, so doesn't belong in RPM (or anything else). And RPM will no longer produce predictable versioning. And you'd probably need to hack it in to yum and numerous other package management tools. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
