DAG repository revisited: problems with versions?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:31:05 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

> All,
> 
> I updated my /etc/yum.conf file to include the DAG repository, as I wanted
> to install amavis via yum instead of from source.  I've included the
> yum.conf below.  The problem is that now when I do a yum update, yum wants
> to replace several of my rpms with what look like older versions. 

Could you give specific examples other than these invalid ones?

> [benjamin at www benjamin]$ rpm -q dovecot
> dovecot-0.99.10-6
> [benjamin at www benjamin]$ rpm -q spamassassin
> spamassassin-2.60-2

> [update: dovecot 0.99.10.4-0.rhfc1.dag.i386]
> [update: spamassassin 2.62-0.rhfc1.dag.i386]

dovecot: 0.99.10.4 is greater than 0.99.10
spamassassin: 2.26 is greater than 2.60

And where the epoch is listed (e.g. Mozilla packages), compared with the
epoch of the currently installed packages:

  rpm --query --qf "%{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}\n" package

Higher epoch wins regardless of version-release.

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