Re: Use with Ximian RPMs?

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 18:16, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 12:02, John HEARNS wrote:
> 
>
> 
> > Incidentally, I have come across a similar problem recently.
> > No names, no pack drill (this is a public list)
> > A package was upgraded - RPM renamed  from package-1.1.rpm to
> > package-latest.rpm
> > Current barfs on this also when trying to create a channel
> > (it tries to find package-1.2.hdr for instance)
> > No fault at all in current.
> > 
> > I'm no RPM expert at all, but I idly wonder if there is a better
> > way than getting the version number from the file name.
> > Guess this would involve some fundamental changes, so I'll
> > keep quiet.
> 
> We don't. We use the rpm python bindings to get that information from
> the rpm itself. The only thing we use the filename for is actually
> finding the package on disk. 
> 
Aha. I learn.


> What does rpm -qpi package-latest.rpm tell you?
I don't want to get too deeply into this - I didn't build it.
but in short:

Name: package 
Version: 7.2
Release: 1.30
Source RPM: package-7.2-1.30.src.rpm

As I say - current is correct. The package should be named differently,
IMHO.