Re: [gtk-list] gimp and gtk+ rpm's

[Ben Gertzfield <che debian org>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Norton <spacey@inch.com> writes:

    Peter> There are gimp-0.99.17 rpm's available on ftp.redhat.com in
    Peter> /pub/contrib/hurricane, for users of redhat 5, or
    Peter> potentially other systems that are using glibc 2. You can't
    Peter> really use it yet, though, because the old gtk+ numbering
    Peter> scheme is interfering with the newer gtk+ packages being
    Peter> accepted.  I haven't received a response from
    Peter> webmaster@redhat.com yet, but in the mean time the gimp
    Peter> rpm's may be of some use.

For Debian, I had to go to epochs (a number and a colon before the
version number to make it unequivocably greater than any version
without the number) to do this:

1:0.99.2-2 is the current version of the libgtk1 package for Debian.

Isn't there a way to do this with RPMs?

If not, shouldn't there be?

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