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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 12:48:32 UTC 2007
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> You have to break the built-in assumption that the newer version of a
> package always carries a later version number. The whole reason for the
> epoch is the automatic assumption regarding version and release numbers.
Wouldn't that mean you'd have to keep and parse all the metatdata for
all versions of packages in a repository which can contain many updates
of every package instead of only considering the highest version package
name when a version number is not specified in the command?
By the way, has anyone examined the mechanisms used by rPath's conary?
I'd expect Erik Troan to know all of RPM's faults.
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Les Mikesell
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