Bug 18181

Summary:	RPM confused about which package is newer.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <gisli>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.0	CC:	n.sedger
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Description Need Real Name 2000-10-03 05:22:54 UTC

I have just completed an upgrade of a RedHat 6.2 + Helix Gnome system to
7.0.
I was somewhat surprised how many helix packages, some of which were
extremely
current, were wiped out by the upgrade.

When trying to reinstall some of them I had the following experience which
suggests that
something may be wrong with rpm-4.0-4:

# rpm -U dia-0.86-0_helix_1.i386.rpm
package dia-0.84-6 (which is newer than dia-0.86-0_helix_1) is already
installed

It would seem that rpm is wrong about which package is newer.

Thanks

   Gisli

PS: What's the deal with http://www.rpm.org and http://rpm.redhat.com?  The
info
presented on these pages is ca. 1 1/2 years out of date.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-03 13:59:06 UTC

One package has a serial number, the other doesn't.

You can determine this by doing:

rpm -qp --qf "%{SERIAL}\n" <package>

Comment 2 Jamie Manley 2000-10-06 02:42:21 UTC

How does one work around this for locally compiled RPMs?  Am I stuck with the
versions Redhat installed?

[root@spiritwalk i386]# rpm -Uvh gdk-pixbuf-*
package gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0-5 (which is newer than gdk-pixbuf-0.9.0-1) is already
installed
package gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.8.0-5 (which is newer than gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.9.0-1)
is already installed