On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Troy Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Well, it looks like I'm going to have to put out a version of yum with the > "versionfix" plugin for SL5. In summary, rpm is picking newer and older > package names different than I expected. > > According to rpm > > <name>-1.el5.1 is newer than <name>-1.el5_x.1 > > which is backwards from what I was thought. So all the checks that I did > when looking for poorly named rpms in SL5, ... well ... I need to recheck > them. > > Anyway, expect a fix next week. I'm sorry about this. > > Troy
An EVR comparison tool may be handy when checking which is newer/older. I use fedora-rpmvercmp in rpmdevtools (EPEL repo). Akemi
