Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Wed Nov 28 17:52:02 UTC 2007


On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> The most basic example, if you just bump epoch and nothing else, the
> resultant file name is no different than the previous file name.  You
> can't store the two builds in the same directory, and it's quite
> confusing.

  More importantly, wouldn't the CVS tag be the same, too?  That's a big 
show-stopper.

      Jima




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