On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:

> 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.

Are there any epoch's involved here ?
Bug 227860 meant that different tools compared "Epoch 0" with
"no epoch" differently.

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