Re: rpm version numbering

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
> current says here that the 1.1.7 is the latest, how can this be?
> 
> can anyone explain how this works?

I don't know if this is relevant to your situation, but there's a good
chance it is, so here goes:

RPMs have something called an "epoch". A higher (newer) epoch number
means the package is considered to be newer even if there's another
package with a lower epoch but otherwise a higher version number. The
epoch number tends to not be in the filename though.

It's possible that the Red Hat postfix packages have an increased epoch
for whatever reason.

-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>