Re: [HACKERS] RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC

[Lamar Owen]

Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
>   >as the Debian packages have the same issue -- and I don't know if .deb
>   >has an analog to Serial:.
 
> We have epochs, that is, the package version is preceded by an integer
> and a colon, which overrides every other part of the version and release
> number.  However, if I ever use an epoch, I will be stuck with epochs for ever;
> so I don't want to start.

RPM also has the epoch mechanism -- and it sounds just like what you
have just described. Not something I want to start using, either. It's
more like a 'super-major' version number than the RPM serial mechanism,
which works in a more broken fashion.
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Lamar Owen
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