Re: Epochs in filenames

[Erik Slagter <erik+rpm oldconomy com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 15:50, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
> On Åroda 11 sierpieÅ 2004 01:53, James Olin Oden wrote:
> > Because, typically, epoch is used to deal with radical changes to versions
> > such that there would be no sane way to determine generically from the
> > version that this package should upgrade another package.  That said, if
> > you used a different epoch per distro then you would have to have a
> > different epoch per distro per major version format change.  Other than
> > that using to deliniate the distro would not give you what you wanted.
> > Say RedHat had epoch 0, Fedora had epoch 1 and Suse epoch 2, then that
> > would mean that a RedHat package would always win, but if you were on a
> > Fedora or Suse system that is probably not what you want.
> 
> I didn't know that inter-distro compatibility is an issue. Could someone that 
> uses packages from various distributions tell me if it gives any major 
> headaches?

I never have these issues, but I apparently some people already get
headaches when I say so here ;-)