Re: Release an rpm with a lower version than the existing one

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On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 08:35:43 +0200
Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon <alejandro.alvarez.ayllon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Not so long ago I took over an rpm called dpm-dsi, being the released 
> version 1.9.0.
> The release of that version was decided by upstream.
> 
> However, now upstream has decided to deprecate 1.9.0 for the moment 
> being, since they
> consider it not stable enough. And they want to release an 1.8.*
> version.
> 
> So my question is: can I build and push to updates a lower version of
> an existing rpm,
> and overwrite the existing one?

Yes you can, this is why we have epochs
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs

Dennis
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