On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:01 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > If you have an rpm: foo-0.6.5-7.fc7 installed and you execute: rpm > > -Uvh foo-0.6.5-7L.fc7.rpm > > > > > > Will the original foo rpm be replaced? If not what change in the > > version would cause the replacement. > > You're building (or rebuilding) the foo package I take it? > > According to fedora-rpmvercmp from the rpmdevtools package, > foo-0.6.5-7.fc7 is newer than foo-0.6.5-7L.fc7. I'd be more inclined > to append a .1 to the release to make it foo-0.6.5-7.fc7.1. That will > be newer to rpm. > > $ fedora-rpmvercmp 0.6.5-7.fc7 0.6.5-7L.fc7 > 0:0.6.5-7.fc7 is newer This is what I get when I run the above command: [root@localhost ~]# fedora-rpmvercmp 0.6.5-7.fc7 0.6.5-7L.fc7 Epoch1 : Why are my results different than yours?
