yum, and 2 packages that provide the same thing

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 18:08:42 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Warren
<s-t-rhbugzilla at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>  Please bother to read my previous email where I explained why this wasn't
>  an appropriate solution.

Then you'll have to live with the fact that numerics in packagenames
don't version compare...even if you encode numbers into them which you
ascribe versioning information to.
You've fallen into an exceptional, pathelogical case that should be
avoided, choice which sub-optimal solution best fits your needs.

-jef




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