Re: RPM version numbering

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 05:29, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
> 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. 

The only way that RPM would think that the second one is newer is if an
epoch came into play.  0.99c_pre3 == 0.99c.pre3 in the world of RPM, and
10 > 1, so it must be an epoch issue if RH actually did this.

Thanks.
Peter