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Re: Weird problem with SL5.0 and 5.1
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:08:27 -0700
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Well, it looks like I'm going to have to put out a version of yum with the
> "versionfix" plugin for SL5.  In summary, rpm is picking newer and older
> package names different than I expected.
>
> According to rpm
>
> <name>-1.el5.1 is newer than <name>-1.el5_x.1
>
> which is backwards from what I was thought.  So all the checks that I did
> when looking for poorly named rpms in SL5, ... well ... I need to recheck
> them.
>
> Anyway, expect a fix next week.  I'm sorry about this.
>
> Troy

An EVR comparison tool may be handy when checking which is
newer/older.  I use fedora-rpmvercmp in rpmdevtools (EPEL repo).

Akemi

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