> yes, that explains a lot :-) > > thx for your help > I just wanted to make one more thing clear, lest you start thinking I'm doing some odd version calculation in yum. the epoch-ver-release comparison is not yum-specific it is IDENTICAL to the e-v-r comparison that rpm uses b/c yum just makes a call out to the rpm.labelCompare() function. I'm not bright enough to figure out all the deep, dark magic that rpm does for version comparisons. I leave smarts like that to other people. -sv
