0.5.15lorg3.1 loses epochs on rh7.3/rh8.0/rh9 (promoteepoch?)

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:36:36PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> The problem is currently Smart and Yum. They expect zero epoch (at 
> least) everywhere and do not support a (none) epoch and this is required 
> for older releases.
> 
> Axel, the only way that my repomd repository will work with your Smart and 
> Yum for older releases is if Smart and YumÃmget fixed

OK, as written elsewhere, now my brains spins in the right direction,
too.

Maybe I'll just remove yum & smart for older releases (e.g. everything
before RHEL3/FC1), I want to EOL these distros till the end of the
year anyway.

> I have to use createrepo -n on older releases and I'm thinking of using it 
> for new releases as well as (and do the same with Yam). If Yum and Smart 
> fail, this is something to be fixed in Yum and Smart and if those are 
> fixed, maybe we can move on and make -n the default.

OK.

> Because the issue is here that Yum and Smart are not designed to work with 
> older releases (none-epoch) and that has to be fixed. Every other 
> work-around is making things even more ugly.

Well, even impossible, so there isn't much to choose :)

I tend to letting the issue die. I think that working with upstream to
fix createrepo/yum will take too much energy since upstream isn't
interested in these distros anymore since long.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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