Guidance on hulahop epoch usage

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 08:51:55 +1000
Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> hulahop had it's Epoch bumped on the F-10 branch to
> hulahop-1:0.4.6-5.fc10 (commit 3c3f6d12edb) to undo 0.4.7 update.
> That epoch bump was limited to F-10, no other branches saw it afaict.
> 
> So anyone who ever installed the F-10 package is stuck with it.
> Anyone else is still fine. Yum on my box claims the version available
> on f15 is indeed the 0.7.1 currently in the repos (I never had the
> F-10 package installed).
> 
> What's the correct thing to do here? Just bump the Epoch again and
> get on with life?

Yes, the correct way to fix this would be to set Epoch: 1 in the
current spec file. That way version 0.7.1 would be allowed to update
the 0.4.7 with Epoch 1.

However, given that the problematic package only appeared in Fedora 10
and upgrade paths are guaranteed by Fedora policy only from F(N-1) to
F(N), I'd say that there's probably no need to fix this any more, since
any remaining installations haven't had updates for ages and upgrading
to a current release cleanly would require a clean reinstall anyway.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org