Bug 118110 - up2date wants to replace newer package with older one
Summary: up2date wants to replace newer package with older one
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: up2date
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bret McMillan
QA Contact: Fanny Augustin
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Blocks: up2date-fc2 120092
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Reported: 2004-03-12 00:27 UTC by Ronald Cole
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-19 19:29:04 UTC
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Description Ronald Cole 2004-03-12 00:27:38 UTC
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Description of problem:
I built and installed xmms-1.2.10-1.  Now, when I run up2date, it
wants to install xmms-1.2.7-22.1.p over it because it thinks it's
newer (which is clearly incorrect).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-4.2.5-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  rpm -Uvh xmms*-1.2.10-1.i386.rpm
2.  up2date -l
3.
    

Actual Results:  # rpm -q xmms
xmms-1.2.10-1
# up2date -l
 
Fetching package list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...
########################################
 
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...
 
Fetching rpm headers...
########################################
 
Name                               Version        Rel
-----------------------------------------------------
xmms                               1.2.7          22.1.p     i386    
                                                                     
      
 
The following Packages are obsoleted by newer packages:
 
Name-Version-Release        obsoleted by      Name-Version-Release
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
xmms-esd-1.2.10-1                       xmms-1.2.7-22.1.p
xmms-gl-1.2.10-1                        xmms-1.2.7-22.1.p


Expected Results:  up2date should recognize that package version
1.2.10-1 is newer than package version 1.2.7-22.1.p and not try to
replace it!

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2004-03-22 21:30:44 UTC
what is the epoch of the 1.2.10-1 package?

 rpm -q --queryformat "%{EPOCH}\n" xmms

Comment 2 Ronald Cole 2004-03-23 01:02:11 UTC
1

Comment 3 Adrian Likins 2004-03-23 18:53:49 UTC
Looks like it must be the obsoletes. Upstream xmms obsoletes
all versions of xmms-esd and xmms-gl, so it gets pulled in
that way. 

Not sure off hand what the right thing to do in that
case is, since leaving dangling obsoletes means
broken systems in the standard case. 

Probabaly just need a check to make sure packages
pulled in by obsoletes are newer than whats installed.
I belive that shouldn't break any legitimate updates,
and should work around cases like this.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 19:29:04 UTC
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
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