Improve the way rpm decides what is newer
Conrad Meyer
cemeyer at u.washington.edu
Sat Nov 21 09:49:26 UTC 2009
On Saturday 21 November 2009 01:38:35 am drago01 wrote:
> We should just use release epochs, people might hate them for whatever
> reasons, but they would easily prevent such issues from happing.
The problem with this system, which has been pointed out before, is that
upgrades using the Fedora N release DVD on an up-to-date Fedora N-1 system
will replace newer versions of packages with older ones -- this is bad.
Regards,
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Conrad Meyer <cemeyer at u.washington.edu>
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