Re: Fixing wrong version number comparison

[Peter Bowen <pzb scyld com>]

On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 06:28, Edward Avis wrote:
> Is there any way to override rpm's version number comparison other than
> bumping the epoch?
> 
> I have perl-libwww-perl-1.0703 installed and I am trying to package the
> newer version 1.09.  But rpm thinks that 1.09 is older than 1.0703.
> Can I persuade rpm that in this particular case, 1.09 should count as
> higher than 1.0703?

I would suspect that perl-libwww-perl already has an epoch on it, as
1.09 > 1.0703.

Thanks.
Peter