Bug 32835

Summary:	security update 1.6.3p6-0.6x not recognised as update
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Paul Jenner <psj>
Component:	sudo	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Paul Jenner 2001-03-23 17:35:05 UTC

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rpm does not recognise the security update sudo-1.6.3p6-0.6x as an update
to sudo-1.6.3p5-1:

[root@alice /root]# rpm -q sudo
sudo-1.6.3p5-1
[root@alice /root]# rpm -Uvh sudo-1.6.3p6-0.6x.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
package sudo-1.6.3p5-1 (which is newer than sudo-1.6.3p6-0.6x) is already
installed

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.download and install the original package sudo-1.6.3p5-1
2.download the update package sudo-1.6.3p6-0.6x
3.attempt to upgrade to the update pacakge with "rpm -Uvh"
	

Actual Results:  The update package will not install without being forced
to update to an "older" package.

Expected Results:  The update should install as an upgrade.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-22 18:43:38 UTC

Can't reproduce this.