[Yum] Missing Epoch / Epoch: 0 handling in 1.0 vs 1.95

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Fri Apr 11 15:41:04 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 15:29, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 08:24, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> > I failed to mention that I'm using 1.95 on RH9 (rpm-4.2-0.69) and 1.0 on
> > RH8 (rpm-4.1-9 from JBJ's testing area).  Dunno if this makes a
> > difference.
> 
> in my understading rpm 4.1-9 didn't have that epoch behavior ALSO on rhl
> 8.0 you're using via the rpm404 compatibility libraries. So it uses
> rpm404's labelCompare call, not rpm 4.1's.

Oops, I forgot that, thanks for the heads up.

> > Makes sense, but IMO yum 1.0 needs to be more consistent.  As said, yum
> > check-update lists the package as something that could be updated, but
> > yum install and yum update refuse to actually update it.
> 
> hmm. that is interesting. I didn't catch that from your last email.

Does this mean that this is now on The List? :)

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