weird dependency between openoffice.org from fedora and oxygen-openoffice in F9

[joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:51:37 +0200, joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
> 
>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:50:04 +0200, joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
>>>
>>>> I installed Oxygen-openoffice (not from the fedora repos) in F9.
>>>>
>>>> Later on, "yum update" tried to update openoffice.org from the fedora repos!
>>>>
>>>> I cancelled this, so that my oxygen software remained clean!
>>>>
>>>> Question: Why did yum try to update the oxygen packages?
>>>>
>>>> Installed rpms:
>>>> ===============
>>>>
>>>>   rpm -qa '*openoffice.org*'
>>>> openoffice.org-core08-2.4.1-9310.i586
>>>> openoffice.org-emailmerge-2.4.1-9310.i586
>>> Can you do this query again but *including* the Epoch values?
>>> $ rpm -qa --qf %{e}:%{n}-%{v}-%{r}\\n '*openoffice.org*'
>> Hi Michael, here they are:
>> ==========================
>>
>>   rpm -qa --qf %{e}:%{n}-%{v}-%{r}\\n '*openoffice.org*'
>> (none):openoffice.org-core08-2.4.1-9310
>> (none):openoffice.org-emailmerge-2.4.1-9310
>   ^^^^^^
> All have no Epoch, but the Fedora rpms of openoffice.org have Epoch 1 (you
> can also see that in Yum's output -- it's the "1:" at the beginning).
> Therefore they are considered as the "newer" packages. In RPM version
> comparison, the hidden Epoch value is most-significant. Epoch comparison
> overrides the result of ordinary version-release comparison. Highest
> Epoch wins, and any non-zero Epoch wins over a missing Epoch.
> 

Hi Michael,

thanks for the explanation. As workaround, I put a

	exclude=openoffice.org*

in /etc/yum.conf. That helped.

Regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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