Re: [Fedora-packaging] Removing all zero epochs from spec files in devel branch
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:11 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:11 -0500, Cristian Gafton wrote:
>Plus, all current versions of rpm should deal with this issue correctly.
>The only stuff that breaks is the rpm --freshen on older releases of rpm.
>Did I mention that rpm has been security errata'd several times since?
No, current rpm --freshen breaks too. My patch has not been taken into
rawhide rpm. I spoke to jbj about it this morning, and he responded by
curling into his little "political bullshit" ball and insisting that he
had to maintain existing freshen behavior for people that depend on it.
Does anyone even use --freshen these days? I don't think yum/apt uses
it...
People using rpm --freshen to do these kind of upgrades are either nuts
enough to deal with the breakage using a bit of shell-scripting or
whatever or should be educated to use proper tools for the job, pick any
depsolver you prefer (rpm --freshen is part of rpm cli operations, not
rpmlib so none of the depsolvers are affected).
Kill the damn zero epochs finally, pretty please.
- Panu -