Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 06:47 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:43:47 +0100
> Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > In fact, koji enforces this.  Koji stores builds based on n-v-r, not
> > > n-e-v-r, so if you only just bump epoch, koji will give you an
> > > error.  
> > 
> > Psst. That isn't something I would tout as a feature ;-).
> 
> It is.  This was a very intentional design item.  We wanted to make
> sure that when a maintainer bumped epoch, they /had/ to bump something
> else of nvr with it.

Well, that probably works for situations where the epoch was a result of
sloppy packaging. If an epoch is needed because upstream "rebases"
versions (or upstream is "rebased" -- due to a forked project or
whatever), it's going to be much fun for the maintainer if/when the
versions clash with the old numberspace.

What is the reasoning for needing to bump something else beside the
epoch? As far as I'm concerned, epoch is the most significant part of
the "combined version" of a package -- isn't that the case?

Nils
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