RPM upgrade discussion
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Jan 1 03:16:52 UTC 2004
Warren Togami (warren at togami.com) said:
> >The new (4.2.1) behavior is more predictable, but it breaks backward
> >compatibility with old packages that have broken requirements
> >specifications (i.e., missing specific epochs when they're needed). If
> >we want to move Red Hat 8.0 and 9 over to the new behavior, we could
> >make new mozilla, etc. packages that work properly with RPM 4.2.1,
> >however.
>
> Updates for Mozilla will most likely be needed one day, because of the
> very large complexity of a behemoth like Mozilla we will surely have a
> security update in the future. I think.
Yes, but pushing a new RPM with this will cause problems for
people installing original packages in the meantime.
Bill
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