[Fedora-legacy-list] Force rpm upgrade?

[Jarod C.Wilson]

On Oct 31, 2003, at 1:44 AM, Jarod C.Wilson wrote:

> On Oct 31, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
>
>> We discussed this earlier during the package naming thread on 
>> fedora-devel-list, but we should come to an agreement on this now 
>> since this is one of the many questions we need to decide upon.
>>
>> Should we force all Fedora Legacy users to upgrade to the latest 
>> version of RPM for their distribution?
>>
>> RH7.3 -> rpm-4.0.5
>> RH8   -> rpm-4.1.1
>> RH9   -> rpm-4.2.1
>>
>> Why?
>> 1) Long term supportability.  RH8's rpm-4.1 is completely broken and 
>> unsupportable.
>> 2) Allows us to use a common package naming scheme with all 
>> distributions from RH7.3 through FC.
>
> I'd advocate forcing all of them to 4.1.1 or later, otherwise I 
> believe you have inconsistent rpm-newer sorting. However, doing so 
> would create additional problems for 7.3, since there are a few 
> packages that (somewhat stupidly) rely on librpm4.0.x, IIRC. Not to 
> mention that you'd have to build 4.1.1 for 7.3 and get people to 
> actually install it... But then it wouldn't be all that unreasonable 
> to expect people to upgrade to a FL-mandated rpm version to use FL 
> packages.

Or even better, everyone to a 4.2 release that resolves the a<b and b<a 
problem and also makes that consistent across all three releases. 
Though I suppose that if the naming scheme is designed adequately, the 
rpm sorting inconsistencies might not be an issue.
-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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