linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Monday 09 April 2007, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I removed the FC version of OOo and installed the
newest version from OOo. Later FC again installed the
FC version of OOo why did that happen?
This is because Fedora OOo rpms have _EPOCH_.
Mamoru
What is EPOCH? Also why would autoupdate downgrade an
installed package?
Well, current FC-6 newest OOo rpm seems 2.0.4 (I usually
use rawhide). Then Fedora rpms say:
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[tasaka1@localhost i386]$ rpm -qp --qf '%{NAME} %{EPOCH}:%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n'
openoffice.org-base-2.0.4-5.5.10.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-base 1:2.0.4-5.5.10
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here Fedora rpms have 'EPOCH: 1' ahead of normal version
and release number, which rpms provided from OOo say:
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[tasaka1@localhost RPMS]$ rpm -qp --qf '%{NAME} %{EPOCH}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n'
openoffice.org-base-2.2.0-9134.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-base (none)-2.2.0-9134
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here OOo rpms don't have EPOCH. In this case, rpm versioning
judges '1:2.0.4 > (none)-2.2.0' (i.e. higher epoch is judged as
"newer") and yum "upgrades" to "1:2.0.4".
Mamoru
