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> 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
> 

You have a good point.
Any ideas anyone?

Troy
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