Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 597316
rpm fails to update higher numbered versions from older releases
Last modified: 2010-05-31 01:50:47 EDT
Description of problem: During anupgrade from F12 to F13 I noticed that a number of old (F12) packages were not replaced by the new F13 versions. It turns out that rpm will consider a package "3.12.4-19.fc12" to be newer than "3.12.4-17.fc13" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.8.0-14.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Take a F12 based system, make sure that the latest version of nss-softokn is installed: $ rpm -q nss-softokn nss-softokn-3.12.4-19.fc12.x86_64 2. Update the system to F13 using yum upgrade 3. Check the version of the package: $ rpm -q nss-softokn nss-softokn-3.12.4-19.fc12.x86_64 ==> not replaced. 4. Attempt a manual update: # rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.x86_64.rpm Retrieving ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package nss-softokn-3.12.4-19.fc12.x86_64 (which is newer than nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.x86_64) is already installed Actual results: The older (F12) package does not get replaced. Expected results: Any F13 version package should be considered more recent than a F12 version package. Additional info:
I have a problem with nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.x86_64 too. I tried to install wine, but I get the following error message: Error while processing: package nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.4-19.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.4-17.fc13.i686) is already installed IMHO there is problem solving dependences for this package somewhere.
In addition I did not upgrade from Fedora 12, but I have done a clean installation! Also I don't have problems on any of my i686 machines with this package.
(In reply to comment #0) > Expected results: > > Any F13 version package should be considered more recent than a F12 version > package. Rpm doesn't know anything about F12 or F13, it simply compares package EVR against another, and according to rpm's version comparson rules 3.12.4-19.fc12 *is* newer than 3.12.4-17.fc13. This is just a packaging bug (or perhaps several, looking at bug 596840). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 596840 ***