On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Rick Graves wrote:
> Lance,
>
> > 'non-contiguous number component' ????
>
> Compare:
>
> httpd-2.0.46-44.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm
> httpd-2.0.46-44.ent.centos.2.i386.rpm
>
> By "non-contiguous", I meant that the "1" and "2"
> digits are separated from the main version number,
> 2.0.46-44.
but ent.centos.2 is the release number and is alphabetically later than
ent.centos.1
>
> But having quickly checked the code, I am wondering
> why the code made the mistake of putting
> httpd-2.0.46-44.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm in the 28 day
> lag directory. (I will have to investigate more.)
>
> > m-e-v-r comparison should have picked that up ...
>
> What is a m-e-v-r comparison? Please tell me more.
sorry - n
name - epoch - version - release
the way rpm works
Regards
Lance
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
> --- Lance Davis <lance@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Rick Graves wrote:
> >
> > > An Apache update in November put the new gif there
> > in
> > > place of the CentOS gif. This was fixed in a
> > httpd
> > > update early this month.
> > >
> > > This server is on a 28 day update lag. Just a few
> > > hours ago, yum automatically updated httpd to
> > version
> >
> > > Theoretically, the appearance of the more recent
> > > version should have blocked the installation of
> > the
> > > prior version, but the logic in the lag mirror
> > > software needs refinement (it is not expecting a
> > newer
> > > version to have a non-contiguous number
> > component).
> >
> > 'non-contiguous number component' ????
> >
> > 1->2 is hardly non-contiguous
> >
> > m-e-v-r comparison should have picked that up ...
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Lance
> >
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