> so for example if you have a package foo > and you have two versions: > 1.1-4 > and > 1.1-3 >=20 > if 1.1-4 has an epoch of 0 or no epoch > and 1.1-3 has an epoch of 1 or higher > then 1.1-3 will be considered newer than 1.1-4 >=20 > This is something rpm has done for a long time now. >=20 > So what yum is doing is this: >=20 > it's downloading the header.info files, use pkgpolicy=3Dlast to > determine that the last cups* pkgs it sees are the ones it should > treat as newest.=20 >=20 > In this case it's seeing your cups pkgs which are are always going to > be "older" in terms of rpm version comparison than the ones that red > hat provides, that have an epoch of 1. >=20 > does that explain it? > -sv yes, that explains a lot :-) thx for your help Best Regards Stephan
