RPM upgrade discussion

[Warren Togami]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Warren Togami (warren at togami.com) said: 
> 
>>>The new (4.2.1) behavior is more predictable, but it breaks backward
>>>compatibility with old packages that have broken requirements
>>>specifications (i.e., missing specific epochs when they're needed). If
>>>we want to move Red Hat 8.0 and 9 over to the new behavior, we could
>>>make new mozilla, etc. packages that work properly with RPM 4.2.1,
>>>however.
>>
>>Updates for Mozilla will most likely be needed one day, because of the 
>>very large complexity of a behemoth like Mozilla we will surely have a 
>>security update in the future.  I think.
> 
> 
> Yes, but pushing a new RPM with this will cause problems for
> people installing original packages in the meantime.
> 
> Bill

Only if we enable the rpm-4.2.1 epoch behavior.  The other fixes don't 
cause this regression in behavior.

Warren