Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

[Jesse Keating]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:26, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>  
wrote:

> On 06/22/2009 12:54 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
>>
>> Not possible while we allow people to keep making updates to the  
>> older
>> releases.  Those updates quickly become version ( not just release  
>> even
>> ) higher than the static copies on the release medium and repos.
>
> Is there any proposed solution to this problem? We can't just continue
> to break upgrade paths and call it the way things are done.
>
> Rahul
>

If you have any ideas I'd like to hear them. A super epoch has already  
been suggested but that just masks the problem and may cause unwanted  
downgrades. Any solution either involves severly limiting what kind of  
updates can be done or requiring network access during upgrades.

--
Jes