[Fedora-packaging] Re: Guidelines and epochs
Jesse Keating
jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Jan 8 16:06:00 UTC 2007
On Monday 08 January 2007 11:03, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> No need for second-tier epochs if people don't add anything than single
> integer digits in there, anmd only use Epochs as a last resource case.
> The 1-9 range should last for the decade at least.
Well, discounting that Bind has an epoch somewhere in the 40s...
What Axel is saying is this. Right now we use Version/Release
We put something in the repo that is version 1.2, release 1. Then we say Lets
try this new 2.0 release!
Version 2.0, release 1
Oh damn, that was a really bad idea, this is totally broken, we need to roll
back, but preserve upgrade path:
Epoch 1, version 1.2, release 2
Now epoch is with this package forever.
What you're saying is to use the Virtual provides right? Same scenario.
Virtual provides of 1.2 is ABI/API/Whatever 1.2. This has no epoch, and even
if the package itself had epoch, we aren't asking for it, we're asking for
the newest package that provides foo(api) => 1.2. Now lets try that 2.0
again, which changes the api, and now we provide foo(api) = 2.0. Whoops, we
need to rollback, now you have to add an epoch to the foo(api) of the 1.2
package, or you lose.
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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