On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 08:08:56PM -0400, Alexander Scheel wrote: > > Without modularity, RPM doesn't offer a good way to choose between different > > versions of the same thing. One can squash version numbers into the name, > > which covers some use cases, but also becomes unwieldy and loses the _idea_ > > that these things are different branches of the same basic software. > > This is not true at all. > > For starters, if you have parallel packages available [0], `rpm -i` will > let you install them all just fine and track each individually [1]. When > you go to uninstall it (`rpm -e rpm-test`), it'll complain that you didn't > specify which one [2], so you'll of course have to specify a version [3]. > > If you then go stick it in a repo, DNF will show you the highest version, > which is expected since DNF generally concerns itself with the updated-ness > of your system [4]. But you can always pass --showduplicates to show the > older versions. And nothing prevents you from selecting a different version > of the package if they exist in the repo [5]. The one place this fails > is that DNF will perform an upgrade, removing the older version, even if you > choose install [6].
What if you want to apply a bugfix (or security update) to both of those packages? How would that work? -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
