On 06/15/2015 01:36 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> You can set arbitrary version numbers on subpackages, so this
isn't
> really an issue.
Blimey, so you can. That's a pretty obscure feature of RPM! I wonder
if any packages use it?
It's quite common, a quick count yields 5257 subpackages which have
different VR from their source package (as encoded in the source RPM
header field, for lack of a better data source).
The largest contributor is texlive, where the source RPM uses a
Subversion revision as its version, and the individual packages use
years. lvm2 uses it as well, so we can assume this functionality is
actually pretty well-tested.
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