Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

Jindrich Novy jnovy at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 12:59:14 UTC 2007


On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:51:31PM +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2007 12:30:19 Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 13:10 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > >> gimp-2:2.4.1-1.fc8.x86_64
> > >
> > > -1
> > >
> > >> The epoch is the most significant factor in version comparison, might as
> > >> well show it...
> > >
> > > with this queryformat people now will start bitching on why they can't
> > > find a file of this name - the same applies to "all small letters file
> > > names".
> >
> > I'm changing the default filename too to match this, for this very reason.
> 
> Please no. Do not use ":" in filenames. It will prevent a simple backup to a 
> FAT filesystem.
> 

This is not a valid reason. Epoch is essential for dependency
resolution/comparison so that it belongs to filename IMNSHO.
You can tar the rpms to an archive so that you can use FAT fs
for backup.

+1 for epoch in filename/default query format.

Jindrich

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