RPM/YUM/Mach catch-22

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Dec 20 18:59:00 UTC 2005


John Dalbec wrote:
> Mach/apt is no longer supported
> Mach/yum doesn't work unless yum is at least the FC3 version
> RHL 7.3 libpng-devel is uninstallable using FC3 RPM because FC3 RPM 
> expects versioned dependencies to include the epoch.
> I don't know whether adding the epoch to the versioned dependency would 
> break RHL 7.3.

The missing epoch was/is a packaging bug, and fixing it won't break 
anything.

-- Rex




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