On 22 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: > well don't expect that :) Ok, I guess. > > prior to rpm 4.2-0.66 rpm did alpha to numeric token comparisons in a > nondeterministic way. > > ie: > > if you're comparing 'a' to 1 and you want to see which is greater then > rpm used to say: > a vs 1 > a is newer > 1 vs a > 1 is newer > > see the problem :) So you are saying it is totally dependant on the order?? > now it says: > a vs 1 > 1 is newer > 1 vs a > 1 is newer > > numbers always win vs letters > so: > z vs 1 > 1 is newer > 1 vs z > 1 is newer. That makes sense I guess. I suspected it was something like this but what confused me was the fact the rpm on the command line would do the upgrade. > > I know jeff johnson reads this list occasionally, I wonder if the > deterministic numeric-alpha comparison patch went into rpm 4.1.1 > > in short - yum can't do anything more than what rpm does here. > > And the reason why rpm on the command line is doing it is mostly luck. > It just matters which one goes into the rpm comparison. I assume that given above you do not need the -d10 yum output?? :-) FWIW (tigger pts2) $ rpm -q rpm rpm-4.1-1.06 (tigger pts2) $ In the previous message you say: Also - if you can - update 8.0 to rpm 4.1.1 and just use yum 1.97(or one of the dailies) Are there any disadvantages to doing this? Thanks for the info, I will simply upgrade by hand. -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....
