Bug 32747
Summary: | Hidden epoch are annoying | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Olivier Crête <olivier.crete> |
Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-03-22 23:22:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Olivier Crête
2001-03-22 22:51:43 UTC
Yes, epoch's are annoying but absolutely necessary. Could they be at least displayed in rpm -qi ? And I'm still searching for an example where they where useful...? From my understanding they are the same as serials? If I want my package to be more recent that a redHat package... what should I had to my spec file... Serial: 1 Epoch: 1 something else? Yes, epoch's are the modern name for Serial: An important example is in perl-5.6 which, since 6 < 503, is not "newer" than perl-5.00503. Displaying epoch's uniformly throughout all of rpm, like -qi, is gonna take a while to accomplish. Meanwhile, you can use a --queryformat like rpm -q --qf '%{epoch}:%{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n' <pkg> to display epoch's. You can even extend rpm's command line options by doing echo "rpm alias --myquery -q --qf '%{epoch}:%{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n'" >> /etc/popt (Note: pardon the line wrap, the above is all one line) to be used as rpm --myquery <pkg+> if you wish to see the epoch's by default. |