Re: Fixing wrong version number comparison

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:52:01AM -0500, Peter Bowen wrote:
> 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.

Nope, 9 < 703, not the other way around.

73 de Jeff

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