Rpmbuild Precedence Problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 20.07.2005 schrieb David Cary Hart um 23:51:

> What did I screw up to achieve this remarkable result? Both of these are
> custom RPMs. I know that I can override with --oldpackage but I'd prefer
> to correct my error.  
> 
>         "package postfix-2.2.4-1.FC4 (which is newer than
>         postfix-2.2.5-3.FC4) is already installed"

Did you edit the .spec files? The "Epoch" (if set) can be the reason to
let rpm see that the 2.2.4-1.FC4 package bigger/fresher than the
2.2.5-3.FC4 postfix package.

Alexander


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