Fedora and Fedora Legacy package versioning schemes

[Warren Togami]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le lun 06/10/2003 à 12:13, Axel Thimm a écrit :
> 
>>On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:39:16AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> 
>>Anyway, the presence of this bug prohibits mixing numerical and
>>alphabetical segments in rpm comparision for any system running an rpm
>>from before 2003, unless rpm is upgraded to a version without this bug
>>before any other upgrading operation.
>>
>>Therefore IMHO mixing numerical and alphabetical segments in
>>comparisons should be avoided for legacy considerations.
> 
> 
> At one point you should consider if providing a fixed rpm version for
> all affected systems and have all updates depend on this rpm version is
> not easier than trying to come with the perfect backwards-compatible
> macro.
> 
+1
Exactly.  And given rpm-4.1 from RH8 as an example, why would anyone 
WANT to not upgrade it... =)

Warren