Re: Use with Ximian RPMs?

Peter Bowen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.up2date.current.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 12:16, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 12:02, John HEARNS wrote:
> 
> > > Rebuilding the database won't help.  You have hit a bug in RPM.  When
> 
> 'bug' may not be the best description here. How to sort such things is
> TOTALLY arbitrary. They just used a different arbitrary rule than some
> people would have.

No, I would consider it to be a bug that a sort function is not
transitive.  rpmvercmp can get it self into a situation where pkgA >
pkgB _and_ pkgB > pkgA.  This is a bug, IMNSHO.

Thanks.
Peter
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