Re: Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

[Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:52 -0600, Jima wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com> wrote:
> >> What is the reasoning for needing to bump something else beside the
> >> epoch? As far as I'm concerned, epoch is the most significant part of
> >> the "combined version" of a package -- isn't that the case?
> >
> > The most basic example, if you just bump epoch and nothing else, the
> > resultant file name is no different than the previous file name.  You
> > can't store the two builds in the same directory, and it's quite
> > confusing.
> 
>   More importantly, wouldn't the CVS tag be the same, too?  That's a big 
> show-stopper.

I'd rather buy Jesse's filename argument -- (CVS) tags can be changed,
as can tagging schemes.

Nils
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