On Tuesday 02 March 2004 15:14, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Gene C. (czar(a)czarc.net) said:
> There seems to be this desire to put oddball version/release identifiers
> for packages. First, in FC2-T1 there was util-linux 2.12pre-3 being
> updated with 2.12-4 but rpm and up2date consider the older package to be
> newer.
Hm, the first one really shouldn't have been named XXpre. That's
a beta release, though, so, what's done is done. We'll try and avoid
that in the future.
> Now, for
> FC1 the recent update for tcpdump has 3.7.2-7.1 being updated by
> 3/7/2-7.fc1.1 but (again) the older packages is considered newer (and the
> same is true for libpcap 0.7.2-7.1 being updated by 0.7.2-7.fc1.1).
That's a bug. Please put this in bugzilla.
Done:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117321
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