Rpmbuild Precedence Problem

[David Cary Hart]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:58 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 20.07.2005 schrieb David Cary Hart um 23:51:
> 
> > 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"
> 
> Did you edit the .spec files? The "Epoch" (if set) can be the reason to
> let rpm see that the 2.2.4-1.FC4 package bigger/fresher than the
> 2.2.5-3.FC4 postfix package.

Sure. I migrated the src.rpm. The epoch is the same in both. I thought
that the epoch tag was to be incremented ONLY to resolve ambiguous
version numbers. I know that I can do that but I'm trying to determine
why rpm doesn't see that 2.2.5-3 is newer than 2.2.4-1.

In this case it is relatively safe to use epoch since there are no
packages (other than pfloggsumm) that depend on postfix (mutt is not
installed).
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