Hi Troy,

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Matthias Schroeder wrote:
>> Tullio Macorini wrote:
>>> what is the newest rpm for CUPS in SL 4.5 ?
>>> 
>>> cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.5.i386.rpm
>>> or
>>> cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.2.i386.rpm

>> I fear in the case of cups (and probably a few others) the only way out
>> is to build the rpm without the dist tag, so that yum and rpm recognize
>> that the package needs updating...

> Ugg ... thanks for letting us know.  For SL 4.6 we cleaned all these up (I 
> really hope) but that doesn't clean up the errata in the other releases.
> I'll take a shot at cleaning this up, which might involve moving the older 
> rpm's into the obsolete area.

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?

Cheers,
 	Stephan

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