Ah, that is probably also why RHEL5's openoffice.org-2.0.x keeps wanting
to install even though I have 2.3!
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Paul Johnson wrote:
I built R-2.6.0 from the fedora distribution and was using it in my
SL5 systems.
Today I noticed that when yum ran, it wanted to update that version
with the old one from SL5, 2.4 . That was weird. Why install an old
one?
After some checking, I learned that the Epoch had been set at 2 on the
RPM from the SL 5 distribution. I've been knocking around in the RPM
building community for about 10 years and I've never been persuaded
the epoch serves a valid purpose, especially when it comes to
differentiating R-2.4 from R-2.6 or whatnot. The Epoch only
frustrates people who are trying to stay up to date. The Epoch is a
frustrating value in this case because so 2:2.4.1 appears to be
newer than 0:2.6.0.
Just singing the complaining song...
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