On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
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
I will give it a shot. Because already I have found exceptions to what I
just said above.
Are there any epoch's involved here ?
Bug 227860 meant that different tools compared "Epoch 0" with
"no epoch" differently.
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