Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (84 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 08, Lorenzo Villani wrote:

> 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.

I see.
The bug is fixed in SVN for 11.0 and TRUNK.

 http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/trunk/libzypp
 http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/branches/SuSE-Linux-11_0-Branch/libzypp



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