[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 22:37:29 UTC 2011
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org>

On 07/11/2011 12:30 AM, Patrick Lists wrote:
> 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.

and that's the problem...

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