On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:01:54PM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> Is RPM so hard to hack to work this around?
>>
> 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?
Yes. The part where you said "hack the RPM". Carrying a Fedora specific hack
like that in our RPM package for _no_ good reason seems pretty silly.
josh