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Joe Polk
2005-03-23T18:25:52Z

> Red Hat or CentOS packages that have an epoch set can be problematic
> in this regard, since %{EPOCH} trumps %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} when it
> comes to upgrades. I was surprised at how many packages have
> explicit epochs. On CentOS 4.0, some are quite high: aspell-en
> weighs in at 50! Try it yourself:
>
> # to sort by epoch
> rpm -qa --qf ''%{EPOCH}: %{NAME}\n'' | grep
''^[0-9]'' | sort -n
> # sort by package name
> rpm -qa --qf ''%{EPOCH}: %{NAME}\n'' | grep
''^[0-9]'' | sort -t'' '' -k 2
>
> If you build your own packages, make sure that you set the epoch to
> the same level as the officially released packages; otherwise, your
> yum or up2date operations may mistakenly revert packages.
>
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>

...and this is why I''ll stick with this release. :) I don''t
know nothin'' ''bout
birthin'' no rpm from tarball! (And if you haven''t seen Gone
With The Wind,
that will make no sense). :)

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