Re: Version problem

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On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:04 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> First of all:
> Might be a silly question, but I'd like to see what the _best_ or the
> Fedora-like solution in this case is...
> 
> I have the following problem. Current verel I have is 0.84rc2-1, new verel
> is
> 0.84-1. But trying to install the new rpms with rpm -Fvh fails (or better
> said:
> rpm does nothing), because RPM thinks 0.84rc2-1 is newer than 0.84-1. What
> is
> the best solution to make the 0.84-1 the newer version? I could use epoch
> for
> this, but I don't think that this is the best solution, is it!?

That's what Epoch was made for. The ideal solution would be if the
previous package had been 0.84-1-rc2, then the new package could be
0.84-2. Oh well.

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