Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

[drago01]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:38:35 +0100, drago01 wrote:
>
>> We should just use release epochs, people might hate them for whatever
>> reasons, but they would easily prevent such issues from happing.
>
> Vendor Epochs have been discussed years ago and have been rejected.
> The normal %{epoch} in RPM Version Comparison is hidden and bad enough
> already. We don't need another hidden "super-Epoch" that wins
> version comparison even with that other %epoch.

You misunderstood me, I was not suggesting adding another epoch but
simply bump the %{epoch}  for every release.