Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (84 mails)

["Lorenzo Villani" <lvillani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> target/rpm/RpmDb.cc
>
> void RpmDb::removePackage( Package::constPtr package, unsigned flags )
> {
>  return removePackage( package->name()
>                        + "-" + package->edition().asString()
>                        + "." + package->arch().asString(), flags );
> }
Yes, I cam to the same function after digging for 1/2 Hour in both
zypper and libzypp source code (heh, I have no experience with their
codebase)

> I suppose rpm dislikes the epoch in edition().asString(): '5:1.8.5-1'
Right, I'm making a patch for fedora which removes the epoch part.

> BTW: In case 2 versions
>
>        4:1.8.5-1
>        5:1.8.5-1
>
> were installed at the same time, would it be possible ot remove just one
> of them with rpm?
AFAIK, the purpose of the Epoch number is to allow solvers to
determine the latest version of a package in such cases, example:
openafs-1.4.1rc9-rhel4.4
openafs-1.4.1-rhel4.5
The solution in this case is to add an Epoch: 1 to the SPEC file. Of
course a better solution is to add an Obsoletes tag but many, many
packages in Fedora use Epoch for "historical" reasons.


Regards
-- 
Lorenzo Villani
Blog: http://blog.binaryhelix.net
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