Re: RPM version numbering

John Berninger <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:09:51 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.up2date.current.devel
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Just a hunch, but do me a favor and run the following command on each of
those packages:

        rpm -qp --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{EPOCH}\n" <filename>

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Jacco Ligthart wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I just found a minor rpm version numbering problem in the RedHat 7.1 
> powertools set of RPM's.
> 
> In the power tools itselve is a RPM named:
> perl-Chart-0.99c_pre3-10.i386.rpm
> While in the updates there is a:
> perl-Chart-0.99c.pre3-1.i386.rpm
> 
> The second RPM is newer, but current thinks that the first is the one that 
> should be distributed. 
> It is not really a big deal for me, but I just wanted to let you know.
> 
> Jacco
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