Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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

I will give it a shot.  Because already I have found exceptions to what I just 
said above.
Thanks
Troy
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