On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 14:05 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > 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. Sorry, I thought some other folks might want to comment on the bug before you committed to fixing it :) Thanks, Seth! /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | | IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s
