Version problem

[Oliver Falk]

Hi Ignacio! 

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:04 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > First of all:
> > Might be a silly question, but I'd like to see what the 
> > _best_ or the 
> > Fedora-like solution in this case is...
> > 
> > I have the following problem. Current verel I have is 
> > 0.84rc2-1, new 
> > verel is 0.84-1. But trying to install the new rpms with rpm -Fvh 
> > fails (or better
> > said:
> > rpm does nothing), because RPM thinks 0.84rc2-1 is newer 
> > than 0.84-1. 
> > What is the best solution to make the 0.84-1 the newer version? I 
> > could use epoch for this, but I don't think that this is the best 
> > solution, is it!?
> 
> That's what Epoch was made for.

OK, so I'll use Epoch for this (well, allready did :-) ).

> The ideal solution would be 
> if the previous package had been 0.84-1-rc2, then the new 
> package could be 0.84-2. Oh well.

I'll remind myself about this as soon as I have 0.85 rc1 or somethin' like
that. :-)

Thanks,
 Oliver