On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 08:07:52PM +0300, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
> Hi! I have a very puzzling problem :
> one rpm with version 1.2.5 and one with 1.3.1 (spec file does not have
> Epoch defined)
>
> trying to install i get this :
> [root@storage02 aliprod]# rpm -Uvh
> xrootd-alicetokenacc-1.3.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
> Preparing... ###########################################
> [100%]
> package xrootd-alicetokenacc-1:1.2.5-1.el6.x86_64 (which is
> newer than xrootd-alicetokenacc-1.3.1-1.el6.x86_64) is already installed
Yeah, "has epoch" is always newer than "doesn't have epoch". You can
see from the "1:" in 1:1.2.5 that that package *does* have Epoch
defined.
> any idea why this could happen?
> AFAIK the solution would be the introduction of "Epoch: 1" but i seen
> that this is usually acceptable only as last resort..
Looks like you're *already* in that state. I guess you can think of
this as an example of why it's a last resort, because once done once,
you're stuck. But now, there you are.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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