RPM naming question.
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 12 21:39:05 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:01 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > If you have an rpm: foo-0.6.5-7.fc7 installed and you execute: rpm
> > -Uvh foo-0.6.5-7L.fc7.rpm
> >
> >
> > Will the original foo rpm be replaced? If not what change in the
> > version would cause the replacement.
>
> You're building (or rebuilding) the foo package I take it?
>
> According to fedora-rpmvercmp from the rpmdevtools package,
> foo-0.6.5-7.fc7 is newer than foo-0.6.5-7L.fc7. I'd be more inclined
> to append a .1 to the release to make it foo-0.6.5-7.fc7.1. That will
> be newer to rpm.
>
> $ fedora-rpmvercmp 0.6.5-7.fc7 0.6.5-7L.fc7
> 0:0.6.5-7.fc7 is newer
This is what I get when I run the above command:
[root at localhost ~]# fedora-rpmvercmp 0.6.5-7.fc7 0.6.5-7L.fc7
Epoch1 :
Why are my results different than yours?
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