Rpmbuild Precedence Problem

[David Cary Hart]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:56 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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
> 
What does that do? I cannot follow the commands.

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