Rpmbuild Precedence Problem

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:12:08PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > >         "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.

Try it and see. It'll print out the epoch:version-release of the package. My
guess is that the apparently-newer package actually has a lower epoch.



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