Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 10:00:18 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Conrad Meyer <cemeyer at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 November 2009 01:38:35 am drago01 wrote:
>> We should just use release epochs, people might hate them for whatever
>> reasons, but they would easily prevent such issues from happing.
>
> The problem with this system, which has been pointed out before, is that
> upgrades using the Fedora N release DVD on an up-to-date Fedora N-1 system
> will replace newer versions of packages with older ones -- this is bad.

"Bad" .. a yum update after the upgrade will fix it.




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