Re: 'outdated' packages in rawhide

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm pld-linux org>]

Dnia Saturday 13 of March 2004 23:31, Hugo van der Kooij napisał:

> But if I dedice to package bar and it requires bar 1.3.1 I would use:
> Requires: foo = 1.3.1
> But any user will notice a dependency error like:
> bar-1.2.4 requires foo-1.3.1
> A normal user will shout out some insults to his/her system about this
> stupid error.
Wrong, see below.

> I would need to dig up this epoch number and make a package with:
> Requires: foo = 10:1.3.1
That's correct. I assume that packagers do their job right and put epoch 
there.

> But how is a normal user to know how to handle these errors?
Simply, read what rpm wrote on the screen.

> So in my view the Epoch field is a pain to great to inflict normal usees
> with. It breaks dependencies in a way a normal user simply can't
> comprehend because the user will not see the Epoch information anywhere.
User will see Epoch:

error: Failed dependencies:
        foo = 10:1.3.1 is needed by bar-1.2.4-x

It's pain that Epoch stays for ever but I don't think that's a real problem. 

Bigger problem is that user needs --oldpackage to upgreade when not using 
Epoch in some cases.

> Hugo.

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