[Yum-devel] Bug in parsePackages() ?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:04 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Just noticed something which to me looks like a bug: parsePackages() has
> a peculiar idea about naming conventions for packages with epochs:
> 
> [root at localhost yum-utils]# repoquery mozilla
> mozilla-37:1.7.8-2.x86_64
> [root at localhost yum-utils]# yum -d 0 list mozilla-37:1.7.8-2.x86_64
> [root at localhost yum-utils]# yum -d 0 list 37:mozilla-1.7.8-2.x86_64
> Installed Packages
> mozilla.x86_64                           37:1.7.8-2
> installed
> 
> Shouldn't parsePackages() be like this instead, or is there something
> within yum using this epoch:name-version-release.arch naming convention?

no.

epoch:name-ver-rel.arch is the 'accepted' specification so you can
string-based reverse-parse and get reasonably consistent results.

-sv