On 10/27/2017 3:26 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Ken Brown writes:
A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form
e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these
correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used,
there is an additional problem in reading filenames containing colons.
The reading is done by Win32 functions, and the illegal characters
like ':' aren't translated.
I don't really think it's worth anybody's while to introduce support for
a feature (epochs) that everone else decided should not be used. Do we
really want to use epochs and what for?
The libsolv branch already supports them. That was my motivation for
these changes.
Ken
