Fedora Core 4

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Jan 20 10:12:55 UTC 2005


Féliciano Matias wrote:
> "glibc-gconvdata-1: > glibc-gconvdata-0:" is false.

false... this is true

Epoch was introduced to let rpm cope with "downgrades". So doing a general 
"update" and introducing a higher epoch makes a "downgrade" possible.
EVR - epoch:version-release is compared and a higher epoch for package A means 
its EVR is higher.




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