[rhelv6-list] rebuilt package not showing selected for update

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Fri Dec 10 23:25:32 UTC 2010


On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Francis Swasey wrote:

> I believe you will have better luck if you replace the dot's with underscores 
> -- as
>
> 2%{dist}_chevron or 2%{dist}_chevron_1
>
> As the dot's are used to delineate (or have been in RHEL4 and RHEL5 package 
> names) where rpm should stop looking when doing which is newer comparisons.

ehh?  the RPM rpmvercmp code does not 'stop looking' in such 
cases; "." has no such 'magic' meaning as a delimiter

-- Russ herrold




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