0.5.15lorg3.1 loses epochs on rh7.3/rh8.0/rh9 (promoteepoch?)
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Tue Aug 8 01:05:55 PDT 2006
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
>
> > In this prehistoric time it was unceivable that a package would
> > have an epoch of "0". A missing epoch was indeed a missing epoch
> > and nothing more or less. Unepoched dependencies and
> > rpm-comparisons had a sick algorithm which depended on the package
> > being installed or not.
> >
> > BUT:
> >
> > There were no explicit zero-epoch packages, neither were there
> > explicit zero-epoch in dependencies.
>
> Yes, but createrepo injects artificial zero epochs *everywhere*, and
> that's the sole reason for this madness. You need to use createrepo -n
> switch for repositories requiring promoteepoch behavior, that way it
> doesn't add the false epochs.
Are there any plans to do the right thing in createrepo and make a
distinction between epoch (none) and epoch 0. Are the Yum and Smart
developers interested to fix their software to understand the difference ?
Kind regards,
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
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