Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
I can confirm that Redhat supports multiple versions:$ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 kernel-2.6.27.5-117.local.fc10.i686
AFAIK the way RPM implements "multiple versions" is by making an entirely different package. Like, for example, if you have Gimp 1.x installed, the package might be called "gimp". When Gimp 2.0 comes out, if you don't want to remove the old Gimp, you make an entirely separate package called "gimp2" with its own set of versions.
The point is that we may have trouble scaling that to cover all the stuff that S11 says. I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm saying it might be difficult, as we'd be using RPM and DEB in a way that they were not intended.
Daniel.
