DNF is completly unable to act with local packages

Vít Ondruch vondruch at redhat.com
Wed Nov 18 15:03:45 UTC 2015


Dne 18.11.2015 v 15:53 Neal Gompa napsal(a):
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Panu Matilainen
> <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
>> Right. Only took eight years for anybody to notice ;)
>>
>>         - Panu -
>>
> At this point, I'm wondering why we don't use the ~/+ operators to
> more explicitly declare the ordering of versions like Debian does. As
> far as I know, RPM does actually support this in every release the
> Fedora Project supports, except for EL5/6. But with those two, we
> already have to do a lot of weird things for compatibility in their
> specs that we're allowed to not have to do for the rest.
>
> I don't know if anyone even understands how version comparison even
> works in RPM fully...
>
>
>

Feel free to reopen the discussion. You have my support.

https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/398


Vít


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