On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 18:08, Leon Fauster via CentOS <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I am building a new workstation based on EL8 now. As someone else here
> mentioned, the raw EL8 distribution
> is unusable as a workstation. Therefore I am building lot of additional
> packages. Today I came across a problem
> with a custom package with an Epoch version, that kills the yum/dnf update
> process (it tries to find a "best"
> package etc.). My actually question; is the RPM Epoch stanza obsolete now
> (for EL8)? I remember that they also
> started to delete Groups categories ...
>
>
Epoch still exists and is used.. but is now not the top dog in all
transactions. What exactly is the package and what is it trying to
'replace'?
When I have run into this.. it is usually a modular package which is
installed or available and dnf/yum says 'cant replace X with Y'
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