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[Gary Thomas]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:36:23 -0700
> Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to run pungi to create a munged/tailored repository,
>> using the official versions of Fedora & Updates.  Sadly, it
>> seems that the original package always seems to override the
>> one with my modifications, e.g.
>>    xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-40.fc8.src.rpm
>> is chosen, even when both it and
>>    xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-40_AM.fc8.src.rpm
>> are present.
>>
>> Is there a way to set the version so that my package always
>> wins?  That way, I can use the 100% official repositories as
>> the starting point and only have my little mods.
> 
> When you modify the package, just add a .1 after the %{?dist}
> declaration.
> 
> In your case, if you use rpmdev-vercomp you'll see that contrary to
> what you'd think, xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-40.fc8 is actually rpm newer
> than xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-40_AM.fc8:
> 
> $ rpmdev-vercmp 0:1.3.0.0-40.fc8 0:1.3.0.0-40_AM.fc8
> 0:1.3.0.0-40.fc8 is newer
> 
> But with a simple '.1' at the end of %{?dist} you get a newer package:
> 
> [jkeating at lumos scripts]$ rpmdev-vercmp 0:1.3.0.0-40.fc8 0:1.3.0.0-40.fc8.1
> 0:1.3.0.0-40.fc8.1 is newer

Cool, thanks!  'rpmdev-vercmp' seems to be a very nice tool
to know about.

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