[CentOS-devel] Out of date qemu-kvm-ev packages (bug preventing it from being updated?)

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:

> On 11/12/2016 01:27 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
>

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.



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