Undefined %epoch problem (Re: rawhide report: 20150730 changes)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:59:12 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > The version tags "ver" and "rel" attributes may also be non-numerical.
> > Why not "epoch", too?
> 
> I haven't looked into the sources, but IIRC, inside of rpm, while rel, 
> ver etc. are strings, epoch is an integer.

See:

  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-August/213209.html
  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-August/213208.html

Plus, RPM would not get to see repository metadata, but only downloaded
packages, which contain the same bad Epoch values.