A word on the Evils of Epoch

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 14:05 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Nasrat <pnasrat at redhat.com> writes:
> Paul> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:38 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> >> This is due to the fact that a package with a Epoch of 0 is always
> >> considered to be newer than a package with no Epoch at all.
> 
> Paul> This is not true anymore, and hasn't been since rpm 4.2.1.
> 
> Dho. You are quite right. :( I thought it was still the case...

There's at least one more case where it still is, rpm -F.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/143301