seth vidal wrote: >> yes, that explains a lot :-) >>=20 >> thx for your help >>=20 >=20 > I just wanted to make one more thing clear, lest you start thinking > I'm doing some odd version calculation in yum. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 i'm not the rpm build profi :-) so all i knew was to count up the = version number and release tag. i will try to rebuild the rpm with epoch inside and tell you the result. Regards Stephan
