[CentOS-devel] Out of date qemu-kvm-ev packages (bug preventing it from being updated?)

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>> ha scritto:
>>
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>> > 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.