On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:10 -0700, Brian Ferguson wrote: > So I built and installed yum 1.0.3 on my rh7.3 system, and I'm still > having the problem as before: > > [chicken] yum-arch -z . > > ... > > > Digesting rpms 37 % complete: kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.i686.rpmAlready found > tuple: kernel i686 > > ignoring older pkg: kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.i686.rpm > <sigh> rpm 4.0.4 had a non deterministic version sort for numbers versus letters so you're looking for the newer package and you're comparing 0 vs a in rpm > 4.1.1 it's deterministic - numbers are always newer than letters. in rpm < 4.1.1 it's not fun. a > 0 0 > a depending on which one you sort first - ie: if I ask vercmp(a, 0) it tells me a is newer vercmp(0, a) it tells me 0 is newer see the problem? -sv
