On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:08:26AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > 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... =) Then why isn't is offered on RHN? -- Axel Thimm physik fu-berlin de
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