Re: Fedora and Fedora Legacy package versioning schemes (was: Retain upgrade paths)

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:04:44PM +0200, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
>  Axel Thimm writes:
>  > c) Drop upgradability from rpm < 4.1 and use kludgy "rhnumber" <
>  >    "number" idiom.
>  
>  A little observation I haven't seen so far.  (But I can have missed it
>  in the long thread, sorry if so.):
>  
>  It will matter that "rhnumber" < "number" only for systems from
> FC1
>  and on.  And those systems come rpm > 4.2.  Systems with rpm < 4.1
>  should never have to see the packages without rh. 
Well, not for "Fedora Legacy", which is about supporting systems
before FC1 (and later FC1 also etc.).

>  So it ought to work out right in practice.  It's still kludgy,
> though. 
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