Package depends on epoch, but why

[Dag Wieers]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> Unless I'm missing something, the only solution is to have the metadata 
> not lie about epochs, but that breaks smart and yum which both expect the 
> epoch property to be always there and be zero for non-existing epochs. 

So the repomd format is just not compatible with older rpm releases 
because yum and smart expect an epoch ? In my opinion both yum and smart 
should fix their behaviour as both do not even support the older rpm 
releases anyway.


> The remaining option is to add a switch to createrepo to make it 
> possible to disable adding those false epochs in the metadata: 
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2006-April/000627.html

I could live with that option as well (and given the fact that both smart 
and yum will not be fixed soon) that might be our only solution. I hope to 
be able to test your patch for RH9 next week.

I hope Yum and Smart do fix this so the option is only a temporary 
solution.

Kind regards,
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