[CentOS-devel] Out of date qemu-kvm-ev packages (bug preventing it from being updated?)

Am 15.11.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>:
> On 15/11/16 13:38, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>            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 ?



qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7_1.8.1.x86_64.rpm	23-Oct-2015 11:19	1.9M 
qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7.16.1.x86_64.rpm	08-Aug-2016 17:36	2.1M 
qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7_2.7.1.x86_64.rpm	03-Feb-2016 16:51	2.1M 
qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7_2.10.1.x86_64.rpm	14-Apr-2016 12:16	2.1M 
qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7_2.16.1.x86_64.rpm	09-Aug-2016 12:53	2.1M 
qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7_2.21.1.x86_64.rpm	24-Aug-2016 13:40	2.1M 


are this packages intentional (dist tag diff)?

qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7.16.1.x86_64.rpm	08-Aug-2016 17:36	2.1M 
qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7_2.16.1.x86_64.rpm	09-Aug-2016 12:53	2.1M 

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