upstream wants me to rename my package

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Sat Sep 8 22:46:15 UTC 2012


On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Ken Dreyer wrote:

> With VirtualGL, if his main concern is that Fedora's RPMs will
> overwrite the ones that he sells, could he just bump the Epoch tag in
> his copies?

This is exactly what I did with custom rpms for opendnssec that depended
on proprietary PKCS#11 drivers and some different dependancies. I set
the epoch to 42 and that's what they have in their private repo. It will
never conflict with their RHEL/EPEL repositories.

Paul


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