Rpmbuild Precedence Problem

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jul 20 21:56:55 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:51:29PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> What did I screw up to achieve this remarkable result? Both of these are
> custom RPMs. I know that I can override with --oldpackage but I'd prefer
> to correct my error.  
>         "package postfix-2.2.4-1.FC4 (which is newer than
>         postfix-2.2.5-3.FC4) is already installed"

Try this: 

rpm -q --qf '%{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}\n' postfix
rpm -qp --qf '%{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}\n' postfix-2.2.5-3.FC4*.rpm

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