Package EVR problems in EPEL 2008-01-20

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Mon Jan 21 12:52:19 UTC 2008


On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:39:42 +0000, José Matos wrote:

> On Sunday 20 January 2008 19:42:55 buildsys wrote:
> > python-imaging: jamatos AT fc up pt
> >   EPEL4 > EL5 (0:1.1.6-3.el4 > 0:1.1.5-5.el5)
> 
>   Was not this solved before?
>   According to the cvs the last version available is
> 
> %changelog
> * Mon Jul 23 2007 Joel Andres Granados <jgranado at redhat dot com> - 
> 0:1.1.4-1
> - Build python-imaging for EPEL4 with the version from FC3.  EPEL4 are 
> packages
> - that can be installed in RHEL4**.
> 
>   IIRC we had downgraded to cope with the inclusion of it in EL5. This was 
> done before the official launch of EPEL so I have no clue what has gone 
> wrong.

Depends on who "we" is. You cannot downgrade a package without asking the
epel-signers to delete a newer package in the repo. The repo shows that an
older package was pushed several months after the higher version:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/SRPMS/

[ ]	python-imaging-1.1.4-1.src.rpm 	25-Jul-2007 11:03 	418K	 
[ ]	python-imaging-1.1.6-3.el4.sr..>	02-Mar-2007 18:20 	436K	 




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