[Yum-devel] Packages depending on an older version of themselves

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 10:09 +1000, Menno Smits wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently seeing a problem when a package seems to depend on an 
> older version of itself. Yum appears to do the right thing until the 
> time comes to run the transaction.
> Is this a problem with the package or is there something yum could be 
> doing better (install the older package first, then install the new 
> package)?

It is both.

1. there is a packaging issue.
2. yum should not be allowing older version of packages in the
transaction to be added to the ts.

I'm going to look into it tonight b/c i've got a reproduceable  error
condition.

:)

thanks.

-sv