mis-named packages in db?

[Claude Jones]

On Monday 22 August 2005 1:30 pm, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > In doing a yum update since Saturday, I keep getting:
> >
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: koffice = 4:1.4.1-0.1.fc4.kde for package:
> > koffice-devel
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: koffice = 4:1.4.1-0.1.fc4.kde is needed by
> > package koffice-devel
> > [root at viewridgeproductions cj]# rpm -qa | grep koffice
> > koffice-devel-1.4.1-0.1.fc4.kde
> > koffice-1.4.1-0.1.fc4.kde
> >
> > The packages yum is looking for begin with the number '4', but the ones
> > I've got installed begin with a '1' - they are otherwise the same package
> > number - this looks like an error, no? If so, how can I fix it. Before
> > discovering this, I'd already run yum clean all and rpm --rebuild
> >
> > How would such an error, it that's what it is, occur?
>
> The "4:" is an Epoch number. Epochs are generally used in RPM packages
> where the upstream version numbering scheme has changed, or if version
> numbers have been used that rpm thinks are "out of order". Any package
> with a higher epoch number is seen by rpm as "later" than a package with
> a lower epoch number no matter what the version/release numbers of the
> packages are.
>
> Try this:
> $ rpm -qa --qf '%{EPOCH}:%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' koffice\*
>
> It appears that one of your repos has an epoch 4 koffice-devel but no
> epoch 4 koffice to go with it.
>

cj]# rpm -qa --qf '%{EPOCH}:%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' koffice\*
4:koffice-devel-1.4.1-0.1.fc4.kde.i386
4:koffice-1.4.1-0.1.fc4.kde.i386

I'm trying to think why this would be. I do use the kde-redhat packages, but, 
I do that on my home machine as well, and there I'm not getting this 
message... I guess my next question is, will things 'catch up'? Should I just 
wait awhile, or do I need to fix something, and lastly, is this question 
something I need to be asking over at kde-redhat?

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA