Re: Fedora and Fedora Legacy package versioning schemes

[Warren Togami <warren togami com>]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le lun 06/10/2003 à 12:13, Axel Thimm a écrit :
>
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:39:16AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>
>
> > Anyway, the presence of this bug prohibits mixing numerical and
> > alphabetical segments in rpm comparision for any system running an rpm
> > from before 2003, unless rpm is upgraded to a version without this bug
> > before any other upgrading operation.
> >
> > Therefore IMHO mixing numerical and alphabetical segments in
> > comparisons should be avoided for legacy considerations.
>
>
> At one point you should consider if providing a fixed rpm version for
> all affected systems and have all updates depend on this rpm version is
> not easier than trying to come with the perfect backwards-compatible
> macro.
+1
Exactly.  And given rpm-4.1 from RH8 as an example, why would anyone 
WANT to not upgrade it... =)

Warren