On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:08:26AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
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... =)
Then why isn't is offered on RHN?
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