[Freeipa-devel] import rpm causes failure during IPA caless install

[Jan Cholasta]

On 8.1.2016 14:28, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jan 2016, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>>> I would be surprised if NSS was used in this particular function.
>>>>
>>> I will try it
>>
>> No NSS here:
>> <https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/master/lib/rpmvercmp.c>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, the function looks simple, so it might be safer to just
>> rewrite it to Python, with no new dependencies.
> Still, we need to be careful in a case where RPM team would decide to
> upgrade rpm version comparison algorithm. It has been fixed for quite
> some years (the core wasn't changed since 2008) but occasionally there
> are additions that expand supported formats like addition of dpkg-style
> versions in 2012.

I don't think we need to care about that, as we use versioning scheme 
compatible with the original comparison algorithm on "our" platforms.

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Jan Cholasta