RPM/YUM/Mach catch-22

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Tue Dec 20 18:37:37 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 13:32 -0500, John Dalbec wrote:
> Mach/apt is no longer supported
> Mach/yum doesn't work unless yum is at least the FC3 version
> RHL 7.3 libpng-devel is uninstallable using FC3 RPM because FC3 RPM expects 
> versioned dependencies to include the epoch.
> I don't know whether adding the epoch to the versioned dependency would break 
> RHL 7.3.

When no epoch is present, 0 is assumed.  Adding epoch 0 shouldn't break
anything.  Please try this and test within a chroot?

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