Epoch numbers [Was: 'outdated' packages in rawhide]
Aleksey Nogin
aleksey at nogin.org
Sun Mar 14 00:17:45 UTC 2004
It seems that a part of the reason that many novices are confused by
epoch numbers is that they are missing from the package file names, rpm
-q output, etc. Because of this the existence (and importance) epoch
number is not immediately obvious, so any epoch-related problems
surprise people at first.
Based on this observation, I have filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118227
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118228
RFEs asking for the inclusion of the epoch numbers in the package
filenames and the default rpm query format. I would imagine that this
might be a bit too late in the FC2 cycle for such a change, but IMHO
this is something definitely worth considering.
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