On 02/27/2006 01:19 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> For FC5 I agree with that of course, since we're nearing the
end of the
> FC5 devel cycle. Once FC6 development begins however, it would be a
> prime time to make this change to rpm in rawhide so that everyone who
> relies on the current behaviour will have plenty of time to fix their
> scripts.
>
> Then, if it appears there are still a lot of broken scripts out there as
> FC6 nears, we can change it back to the current query results for FC6,
> and then re-change it for FC7 development.
>
> The end goal being a migration from what it reports now, to what we
> would like it to report in the future, with plenty of time for people
> to fix broken scripts that don't formulate their own --qf queries.
>
> This allows forward progress, while minimizing problems, and providing
> a migration path.
Alternatively, we could discourage the use of rpm as a command itself
and push people toward using repoquery. repoquery acts on local rpmdb's
as much as repositories.
and repoquery's default format is:
name-epoch:ver-rel.arch
Additionally a note in Release Notes in x86_64 specific part about it
could go a long way as to prevent some confusion. One short paragraph
that the x86_64 release contains some packages in two versions 32- and
64-bit and eventually how to query for them.
It will not prevent all reports about duplicate packages but at least
limit their number and also provide some educational/useful information.
Dariusz
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