On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 09:46 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 15:18 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > - tilde support in version comparison > > > > No fundamental objections, it'd simplify packaging of pre-release versions > > a great deal. The current suggested patch has some issues though, see > > http://rpm.org/ticket/56#comment:6 > > > > I dunno if the compatibility aspect is worth worrying about too much. > > There might be a handful of packages using ~ in version/release in > > the wild but common it is not, and it probably wouldn't be the end of the > > world if those got "broken". Still it needs to be at least considered, > > even if the decision is just to ignore. > > > And we'll need to add support to yum-metadata-parser and createrepo to > understand the new type.
actually, we won't - I was thinking of it being a change to the version FLAG and not to the version strings itself. -sv _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint