[Yum] xinetd-problem

stephan.helas at e-7.com stephan.helas at e-7.com
Fri May 23 12:11:35 UTC 2003


> so for example if you have a package foo
> and you have two versions:
> 1.1-4
> and
> 1.1-3
> 
> if 1.1-4 has an epoch of 0 or no epoch
> and 1.1-3 has an epoch of 1 or higher
> then 1.1-3 will be considered newer than 1.1-4
> 
> This is something rpm has done for a long time now.
> 
> So what yum is doing is this:
> 
> it's downloading the header.info files, use pkgpolicy=last to
> determine that the last cups* pkgs it sees are the ones it should
> treat as newest. 
> 
> In this case it's seeing your cups pkgs which are are always going to
> be "older" in terms of rpm version comparison than the ones that red
> hat provides, that have an epoch of 1.
> 
> does that explain it?
> -sv

yes, that explains a lot :-)

thx for your help

Best Regards
Stephan



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