On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 22:01, Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com> 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?
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.
And you'd probably need to hack it in to yum and numerous other
package management tools.