Package EVR problems in EPEL 2008-01-20

Joel Andres Granados jgranado at redhat.com
Mon Jan 21 14:03:06 UTC 2008


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:39:42 +0000, José Matos wrote:
> 
>> On Sunday 20 January 2008 19:42:55 buildsys wrote:
>>> python-imaging: jamatos AT fc up pt
>>>   EPEL4 > EL5 (0:1.1.6-3.el4 > 0:1.1.5-5.el5)
>>   Was not this solved before?
>>   According to the cvs the last version available is
>>
>> %changelog
>> * Mon Jul 23 2007 Joel Andres Granados <jgranado at redhat dot com> - 
>> 0:1.1.4-1
>> - Build python-imaging for EPEL4 with the version from FC3.  EPEL4 are 
>> packages
>> - that can be installed in RHEL4**.
>>
>>   IIRC we had downgraded to cope with the inclusion of it in EL5. This was 
>> done before the official launch of EPEL so I have no clue what has gone 
>> wrong.
> 
> Depends on who "we" is. You cannot downgrade a package without asking the
> epel-signers to delete a newer package in the repo. The repo shows that an
> older package was pushed several months after the higher version:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/SRPMS/
> 
> [ ]	python-imaging-1.1.4-1.src.rpm 	25-Jul-2007 11:03 	418K	 
> [ ]	python-imaging-1.1.6-3.el4.sr..>	02-Mar-2007 18:20 	436K	 

This is extremely strange.
1. This didn't come up before :) I've been checking the EPEL fairly regularly
to see if python-imaging had any problems and it had never come up.  Since 
the 1.1.4 appeared after 25-Jul, it should have screamed immediately 
(assuming that the 1.1.6 version was there)

2. I started co maintaining the EPEL package with jamatos around jul-2007, so 
the 1.1.6 version must have been there already (IMHO).  Can we actually
know who pushed it?  Maybe it was automatically brought in :).

3. I checked my email logs and verified that the issue was discussed around Jul-2007
I cannot find earlier mails about the package ( I subscribed around Jul-2007, so
apologies if I'm wrong)

Don't know what to make of it. So I assume from "You cannot downgrade a package 
without asking the epel-signers to delete a newer package", that the solution 
is to delete the newer package. right?
Regards

-- 
Joel Andres Granados
Red Hat / Brno, Czech Republic




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