Re: Fedora Core 4

[Harald Hoyer <harald redhat com>]

Féliciano Matias wrote:
> "glibc-gconvdata-1: > glibc-gconvdata-0:" is false.

false... this is true

Epoch was introduced to let rpm cope with "downgrades". So doing a general 
"update" and introducing a higher epoch makes a "downgrade" possible.
EVR - epoch:version-release is compared and a higher epoch for package A means 
its EVR is higher.