Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le lun 06/10/2003 à 12:13, Axel Thimm a écrit :
>On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:39:16AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>Anyway, the presence of this bug prohibits mixing numerical and
>alphabetical segments in rpm comparision for any system running an rpm
>from before 2003, unless rpm is upgraded to a version without this bug
>before any other upgrading operation.
>
>Therefore IMHO mixing numerical and alphabetical segments in
>comparisons should be avoided for legacy considerations.
At one point you should consider if providing a fixed rpm version for
all affected systems and have all updates depend on this rpm version is
not easier than trying to come with the perfect backwards-compatible
macro.
+1
Exactly. And given rpm-4.1 from RH8 as an example, why would anyone
WANT to not upgrade it... =)
Warren