Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 117321
version/release makes old package appear newer
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:37 EST
Description of problem: FC1 was shipped with tcpdump-3.7.2-7.1, libpcap-0.7.2-7.1, and arpwatch-2.1all-7.1. The recently announced updated are tcpdump-3.7.2-7.fc1.1, libpcap-0.7.2-7.fc1.1 and arpwatch-2.1all-7.fc1.1 In each of these cases, rpm and up2date consider the older package to be "newer" than the update. Therefore the updated packages are ignored. Given the dependency that many have on up2date selecting the packages to be updated, this is not a reasonable situation.
i found the thread i was looking for "alpha vs numeric" http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2003-November/msg00192.html asymmetric triggering bug ?? 3.7.2-7.fc1.1 < 3.7.2-7.1 f < 1
Hello, I have updated Fedora Update Advisory page for tcpdump at FedoraNEWS.ORG with this issue. http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-090.shtml Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org)
A testing build containing the fix was uploaded to the testing channel, with a newer version number than the one that was in the testing channel before. This should fix it. It did for me :-) Thanks, Harald (or whoever it was that built the package :-)