[Yum] Yum doesn't want to upgrade

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 11:40, Francois Massonneau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to upgrade a program named grip.
> I know I have a newer version than the one installed on my system :
> 
> [fm at celtes2 addons]$ rpm -qa | grep grip
> grip-3.0.7-1


do a yum list grip\*

I bet the 'newer grip' you have is lacking an epoch or has a lower epoch

> [fm at celtes2 addons]$ ls 
> -rw-r--r--    1 fm       users      478513 oct 12 08:08 
> grip-3.1.2-1.i386.rpm
> [fm at celtes2 addons]$
> 


run rpm -qp --qf "%{name} %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}" \
grip-3.1.2-1.i386.rpm


-sv