[Freeipa-devel] Fedora 20 Release

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>>>>>Simo thinks that this is a reason why 'downgrade package' 
>>>>>>with 1.3.1.x inevitably needs automated script which will 
>>>>>>purge two missing plugins from dse.ldif.
>>>>>
>>>>>We have an upgrade/downgrade framework, it should be easy to 
>>>>>disable/remove these plugins.
>>>>>
>>>>>Is that it?  Are there any other problems found attempting to 
>>>>>downgrade 1.3.2 to 1.3.1 in F20?
>>>>Packaging issue -- epoch will have to be increased and maintained
>>>>forever. It is weird but that's what it is.
>>>
>>>Sure.  But that's a one time thing.  And, it's only for F20 - 
>>>once we go to F21, we can remove the epoch.
>>No, and that's key here. Once Epoch is in place, it is forever.
>
>Why?
Because that's how RPM is built. When Epoch value is absent it is
assumed to be equal to 0. 

1.3.1.18-1 will be equal to 0:1.3.1.18-1 and less than 1.3.2.8-1,
however, 1:1.3.1.18-1 will be greater than 1.3.2.8-1 because the latter
is equal to 0:1.3.2.8-1.

Once epoch is there, it is to stay.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy