On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 12:27:57AM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 12:15 AM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 3:48 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> > <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Aleksandra Fedorova wrote:
> > > > The most visible impact of the proposal would be the filename change:
> > > >
> > > > Current: dnf-4.9.0-12.fc36.noarch.rpm
> > > > Proposed: dnf-4.9.0-12.fc36.34897715.noarch.rpm
> > >
> > > The history of development of rpm and the ecosystem has shown that
> > > modifications that are visibile at the level of the output binary rpm
> > > have a long implementation tail for the ecosystem. In particular, if
> > > we allow add the build-number information, many many consumers will
> > > need to adjust for this, from trivial things like regexps to match
> > > '%dist.rpm' in the filename to complicated things that extract and
> > > make use of the version field. So if we want to add a new feature
> > > here, a much strong justification why what we have already is not
> > > enough would need to be provided.
> > >
> >
> > This is already something people have to expect, since our existing
> > policy permits a tailing number and it is used for various purposes.
>
> Well, it's complicated.
>
> There's currently a 100% foolproof way to parse NEVRs into their
> components, because there are *always* two "-" separators (when
> counting from the end) that separate "name", "epoch:version", and
> "release" (i.e. you can do nevr.rsplit("-", 2) in Python, and you get
> 100% correct results for 100% of packages in Fedora repositories).
That is already broken today with modules where the stream which is included in
the name can have '-' in them.
Pierre
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