On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 13:16, Brian Lalor wrote: > On 19 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 11:41, Brian Lalor wrote: > > > On 19 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > > > What's the epoch on the sawfish package you have installed? > > > > > > (none):sawfish > > > > > > > well there is your problem. > > > > the sawfish in rhl 9 has an epoch of 2. > > > > Therefore it is newer. > > Is this documented somewhere? Epoch overrides the version and release no > matter what? > yes - it's documented in the rpm version comparison specification. This has been the case in rpm (not AT ALL specific to yum) since rpm 3 or below. -sv
