2009/11/20 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com>:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Stu Tomlinson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 22:01, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> There's many things that need to be changed in rpm but IMHO this
isn't one
>>> of them. RPM produces predictable versioning. Hacking it up with special
>>> cases will lead nowhere but pain.
>>
>> Suppose we hack the RPM, such that right before RPM does the EVR check
>> when updating a package, it will take the Release string and does a
>> 's@.fc\([0-9]\)@.f\1(a)' for both the old and the new package? Can you
>> give me an example where this might lead to a problem?
>
> Which part of "Hacking it up with special cases will lead nowhere but
> pain." confused you?
>
The part where an obvious hack would not cause a confusion confused me.
> It's a hack. It's Fedora-specific, so doesn't belong in RPM (or
> anything else). And RPM will no longer produce predictable versioning.
>
My proposed hack's outcome is quite predictable.
But version comparison behaviour will cease to be consistent across
distributions.
--
Mat Booth