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Re: upset, genini: different version ordering
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:35:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: upset, genini: different version ordering
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On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 21:53 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> > In short, xdelta was updated from 1.x to 3.x, then it was realized that
> > both were needed, and so xdelta was reverted to 1.x and xdelta3 was
> > created. Instead of saying "oh btw you need to revert xdelta to 1.x
> > yourself" (which is all we could do currently), the solution would be to
> > bump epoch on xdelta-1.x, which would force it to be considered newer
> > than the short-lived xdelta-3.x by both upset and setup.
>
> Once you've used an epoch-extended version you'd be forced to always use
> it, however.
Correct, just like with RPM.
> I think this is creating more problems than it solves
Such as?
> and I don't see why any of you would like the idea.
Because it is a well-established solution for the same issue on other
platforms.
--
Yaakov
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