[Yum] why is this flagged as old?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 11:23, Brian Lalor wrote:
> I've got sawfish 1.3 installed on my RH9 box from a package I built 
> myself.  rpm  -q sawfish reports "sawfish-1.3-1".  Why, then, does yum 
> want to install an old version?
> 
> sawfish                                  i386       1.2-5
> 

What's the epoch on the sawfish package you have installed?

the epoch on the package from red hat is 2.

rpm -q --qf "%{epoch}:%{name}\n" sawfish

-sv