Re: Package version conflicts

On this note, I'm working on an SQL database 
schema that can hold multiple trees/channels. My 
current workload isn't permitting me much time to 
work on it right now, and probably not much in 
Febuary. However, I am hoping to get it together 
by the time current-1.x development starts. To 
this particular problem, my schema does not allow 
multiple versions or releases of a package name to 
be held within a package layer. I will allow 
multiple architechtures though (primarily so that 
optimized kernels are held correctly).
	I would like to know if it would be preferred to 
track the client channel on the server side or on 
the host side. The schema I'm working on does not 
provide tracking which channel to use for a host, 
so I would have to add this.

Nathan G. Grennan wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 	Since the release of the most recent patch we have a functioning
> up2date server, but something Must be done about cadmin/current and more
> than one version of the package in the tree. Having to go through by
> hand and remove duplicates every time a new update comes out will be a
> nightmare. There are duplicates of original vs errata, old errata vs.
> new errata, rawhide vs errata, gnomehide vs errata,  different arch vs
> everything else, arch vs arch. There is also the problem of when you
> want to keep things up to date by mirroring redhat so that all the rpms
> will be under directories in like redhat's ftp tree. I think this can be
> over come by using symlinks generated by a script, but there is still
> the multiple copies problem. Has anyone come up with any elegant scripts
> to solve this problem? I think really this must be address without
> current so that it just doesn't care and figures out the newest/best for
> the client itself.
> 
> Example:
> 
> 
> xchat-1.8.1-2.i386.rpm      - original 7.2
> xchat-1.8.6-1.i386.rpm      - current gnomehide
> xchat-1.8.7-1.72.0.i386.rpm - current errata
> 
> 
> or
> 
> kernel-2.4.7-10.i386.rpm   - original 7.2
> kernel-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm   - old errata
> kernel-2.4.9-21.i386.rpm   - latest errata i386
> kernel-2.4.9-21.i586.rpm   - latest errata i586
> kernel-2.4.9-21.i686.rpm   - latest errata i686
> kernel-2.4.9-21.athlon.rpm - latest errata athlon
> 
> 
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