Fedora and Fedora Legacy package versioning schemes (was: Retain upgrade paths)

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:04:44PM +0200, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> Axel Thimm writes:
> > c) Drop upgradability from rpm < 4.1 and use kludgy "rhnumber" <
> >    "number" idiom.
> 
> A little observation I haven't seen so far.  (But I can have missed it
> in the long thread, sorry if so.):
> 
> It will matter that "rhnumber" < "number" only for systems from FC1
> and on.  And those systems come rpm > 4.2.  Systems with rpm < 4.1
> should never have to see the packages without rh.

Well, not for "Fedora Legacy", which is about supporting systems
before FC1 (and later FC1 also etc.).

> So it ought to work out right in practice.  It's still kludgy, though.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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