[packman] Fwd from openSUSE general: Why are packman package names not consistent?

[Olaf Hering]

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:07:24 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>:

>    Will the ".. 150400.10.pm.X .." filenames be consistent going forward?

Yes.

The previously used release string pmNNN.something was working as expected
with the recommended 'zypper dup --from packman --allow-vendor-change'.
During upgrade from one Leap 15 version to another the packages appear
as newer, everything was replaced (with zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change).

But it turned out an update for a linked package will lead to conflicts
because a number is newer than a word (150NNN > pmNNN), see bug#1205456.

After some back and forth, the currently used release string is supposed to
also handle updates of linked packages properly.


Olaf
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