Re: createrepo -c problems

On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:06 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:

> Right, sorry, NVRA is *supposed* to be unique within a distro.  
> Epoch shouldn't be needed for uniqueness, only to override the  
> default sorting rules for version/release.

Okay, I guess this is me being naive and not having seen enough RPMs.

Yum copes with non-unique NEVRA which is the reason for the SHA/MD5  
checksum being used as package id. I suppose this same reasoning was  
in effect when doChecksumCache was written.

Anyway, thinking more about the problem, I wonder if a better  
solution isn't to base the checksum filename on path to the original  
RPM.

j.