[CentOS-devel] Out of date qemu-kvm-ev packages (bug preventing it from being updated?)

[Karanbir Singh]

On 15/11/16 13:38, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
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> 
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu
> <mailto:lowen at pari.edu>> wrote:
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>     On 11/12/2016 01:27 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
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>             Il 11/Nov/2016 22:03, "Mohammed Naser" <mnaser at vexxhost.com
>             <mailto:mnaser at vexxhost.com> <mailto:mnaser at vexxhost.com
>             <mailto:mnaser at vexxhost.com>>> ha scritto:
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>             >
>             > Hi everyone!
>             >
>             > It seems that the latest released version of qemu-kvm-ev is
>             > qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7_2.21.1 based on the following:
>             >
>             > https://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=539
>             <https://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=539>
>             >
>             > However, our systems are refusing to update to that package because
>             > qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7.16.1 is installed.  I believe the 16.1 is
>             > making it seem that it is newer than 2.21.1 (16 > 2).
> 
>             Looks like dist tag is not considered in version
>             computation. 21.1 is higher than 16.1 but el7 is considered
>             higher than el7_2. Just to be sure, please try yum clean
>             metadata, and then yum distro-sync.
> 
>     I can confirm this behavior here.  In fact, it looks like we've
>     missed two updates; el7_2.16.1 was released the day after el7.16.1
>     was, and that one didn't update my install, either.  In checking, it
>     appears that both have an epoch of 10.
> 
>     A yum distro-sync does not offer to reinstall qemu-$subpackage-ev
>     for me, even after yum clean metadata or yum clean all.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> karanbir any chance we can get the offending package removed from the
> repository? So at least rpm -Uvh --force to the newer release will work
> and yum won't try to downgrade it.
> 

if we were to try and resolve this without removing rpms, what would
that solution look like ?


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