Wrong version checks...

Hi you all,

I hope I'm not going to say completely stupid things, but I've something
strange here. My problem is basically the same as Vincent Cojot's one, but
on a regular RedHat 7.2 i386 system...

I'm running current-1.0.2 (RPM package), on a RedHat 7.2 with all the
latests updates (RPM, Python, popt...)

I have a local mirror of the RedHat 7.2 and it's updates (i386, i686,
noarch)

I have a single channel (RedHat 7.2, i386) with four directories (original
RPMs, i386 updates, i686 updates, noarch updates).

When I ran 'cadmin -v create redhat72' this morning, I saw the following
things for the version checks for the up2date packages (redhat still have
the -11 -46 and -61 packages on their site):

=====================================================================
Apr 04 08:52:16 Adding up2date-2.7.2-7.x.6.i386.rpm
pkg0 = up2date, pkg4 = i386, filename = up2date-2.7.2-7.x.6.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:53:53 Removing up2date-2.7.2-7.x.6.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:53:54 Adding up2date-2.7.61-7.x.2.i386.rpm
pkg0 = up2date, pkg4 = i386, filename = up2date-2.7.61-7.x.2.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:54:24 Removing up2date-2.7.61-7.x.2.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:54:25 Adding up2date-2.7.46-7.x.2.i386.rpm
pkg0 = up2date, pkg4 = i386, filename = up2date-2.7.46-7.x.2.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:55:11 Removing up2date-2.7.46-7.x.2.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:55:12 Adding up2date-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm
=====================================================================

2.7.2 is erased by 2.7.61 (OK), which is then erased by 2.7.46 (WRONG), and
finally erased by 2.7.11 (WRONG)

I end up with 2.7.11 on my current server !

On the other hand, here is what I get for up2date-gnome:

=====================================================================
Apr 04 08:51:56 Adding up2date-gnome-2.7.2-7.x.6.i386.rpm
pkg0 = up2date-gnome, pkg4 = i386, filename =
up2date-gnome-2.7.2-7.x.6.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:52:53 Removing up2date-gnome-2.7.2-7.x.6.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:52:54 Adding up2date-gnome-2.7.46-7.x.2.i386.rpm
pkg0 = up2date-gnome, pkg4 = i386, filename =
up2date-gnome-2.7.46-7.x.2.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:53:43 Removing up2date-gnome-2.7.46-7.x.2.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:53:44 Adding up2date-gnome-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm
pkg0 = up2date-gnome, pkg4 = i386, filename =
up2date-gnome-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:55:19 Removing up2date-gnome-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm
Apr 04 08:55:20 Adding up2date-gnome-2.7.61-7.x.2.i386.rpm
=====================================================================

And this is RIGHT !

Finally, I have exactly the same behaviour with the 'rhn_register' (WRONG)
and 'rhn_register-gnome' (RIGHT) packages...

I know that current is NOT doing the version checking, but let's admit that
this one should be simple to figure out by the RPM library ;-)

Any idea about what could be wrong ?

Thx for your help and for this GREAT project which makes me save plenty of
time every day...

Best regards, - Patrick -

PS1: I've done some random checks on other packages which have been updated,
even several times (like php), and I don't see any problem on those ones...

PS2: This is not really hurting me, as I'm anyway building my own
rhn_register and up2date client packages for use with our current server...
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