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,
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