package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

Petr Pisar ppisar at redhat.com
Tue Apr 2 14:16:31 UTC 2013


On 2013-04-02, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:27:43 +0000 (UTC)
> Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Misusing names does not allow all of that.
>
> misusing? Is this, again, another metaphor? Please speak plainly. What
> do you mean here? Where is the misuse?
>
foo1, foo2, foo3 -- there is no ordering in the upgrade path, you cannot say
foo2 or newer. From my point of view mangling package names (see
scl_utils) is misuse.

-- Petr



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