Hi Ignacio! Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:04 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: > > 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. OK, so I'll use Epoch for this (well, allready did :-) ). > 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. I'll remind myself about this as soon as I have 0.85 rc1 or somethin' like that. :-) Thanks, Oliver
