On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 14:02 -0500, Brian Long wrote: > Would it make sense to add a feature to yum where yum info <foo> would > list the Epoch if one existed? > > I ran "yum info mozilla" on my machine with various internal repos. > mozilla-1.7.10 was installed and 1.7.12 was available, but "yum update > mozilla" would not install anything. It was not immediately obvious to > me that this was caused by the Epoch values inside the mozilla packages. > 1.7.10 had a higher Epoch than 1.7.12. > > I hate Epoch's in RPMs, but sometimes they're needed to override vendor > RPMs and this is the case with our internal Mozilla RPMs. > > https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=576 > I got the bug, too, no need to post both places. :) -sv
