A word on the Evils of Epoch
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat at redhat.com
Sat Jan 28 20:30:43 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:38 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> In the process of doing a mass rebuild here of all extras packages for
> current devel/fc5 under mock I ran into an interesting issue:
>
> The following packages were released at some point with a "Epoch: 0"
> set. If you have EVER release a package with an Epoch, you need to
> keep that around forever after if you expect updates to work.
>
> This is due to the fact that a package with a Epoch of 0 is always
> considered to be newer than a package with no Epoch at all.
This is not true anymore, and hasn't been since rpm 4.2.1.
Paul
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