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> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>>> But how to get these updates onto systems where the old packages are
>>> already installed (other than manually, with --force)? Do I have to dig
>>> out my old scripts from the pre yum aera?
> 
>> You have a good point.
>> Any ideas anyone?
> 
> Lots, but they all end up either reinventing up2date or hacking yum and/or
> rpmlib. Not very appealing :-(
> 
> But then they actually did break "rpm -U" and "yum update", so maybe
> that's what we're bound to do after all anyway.
> 
> I wonder whether there's a hidden switch when building rpm to make it
> work right with z-stream tags. If there is, the CentOS folks haven't found
> it either... I'm going to check whether TUV's rpm binaries get it right,
> unless someone beats me to it.
> 
> - Stephan
> 

Well, I've looked at cups, and in this case, it was a matter of me getting it 
wrong.  It really should have been cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_5.2 and not
cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.2.src.rpm
Connie has gotten all of our build scripts taken care of so that they put the 
appropriate el4_5, el4_6, el5_0 ... etc.  But there is this batch of rpm's from 
before, where we were figuring out what RedHat was doing.
I think maybe the correct way to do it, is to rebuild it again without the dist 
tag, and push it out to SL 40-45.  But then we'll have to keep doing that until 
they finally update the number in a way that we can get things back on track.
So the new cups errata would be cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.5.src.rpm, which would 
install correctly I believe.
Troy

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