[CentOS-devel] package centos-release-10:5-6.el5.centos.1.x86_64 newer than centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64

Sun Jul 10 22:30:53 UTC 2011
Patrick Lists <centos-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl>

On 07/10/2011 11:12 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 10:44 PM, Ulrich Leodolter wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i know c6 it is not released, but centos-release packages
>> was not upgraded when doing upgrade from 5.6 to 6.0
>> (using upgradeany option).
>>
>> [root at server Packages]# rpm -Uvh centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm
>> warning: centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID c105b9de: NOKEY
>> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>>          package centos-release-10:5-6.el5.centos.1.x86_64 (which is newer than centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64) is already installed
>>
>> i assume this was not tested because this upgrade method is not supported by upstream vendor.
>
> even though seems to be a serious bug:-(
> btw. not supported but working most of the cases.

Why is this a bug? Afaik an epoch of 10 (the C5 rpm) trumps an epoch of 
0 (the C6 rpm). 10 > 0 so do not upgrade.

Regards,
Patrick