On Dec 12, 2007 9:06 AM, Matt Hyclak hyclak@math.ohiou.edu wrote:
I wasn't terribly clear. By "newer", I only mean in the eyes of RPM. You could take foo-0.0.0.0.1beta, give it an epoch of 1 and foo-99.9pro with
the
default epoch of 0, and RPM would think the 0.0.0.0.1beta was newer.
I'm not sure why the openoffice 2.x RPMs have an epoch of 1.
It seems that there is more to it.
OOo says they do not release 64-bit RPMs of their code, therefore the 64-bit RPMs must have come from CentOS.
If that's true, doesn't it break some kind of unwritten rule to supersede newer software from an OEM source with older software that has been rebuilt?
I have the exclude now (and OOo 2.3.1, which is still 32-bit and "older" than the CentOS 5.1 epoch of OOo 2.0.4), but this just seems wrong.
mhr