Release an rpm with a lower version than the existing one

2013-07-11 Thread Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon
Hi all, Not so long ago I took over an rpm called dpm-dsi, being the released version 1.9.0. The release of that version was decided by upstream. However, now upstream has decided to deprecate 1.9.0 for the moment being, since they consider it not stable enough. And they want to release an 1

Re: Release an rpm with a lower version than the existing one

2013-07-11 Thread Florian Weimer
On 07/12/2013 08:35 AM, Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon wrote: So my question is: can I build and push to updates a lower version of an existing rpm, and overwrite the existing one? Not really, but you can set an epoch. Please note the caveats mentioned in the guidelines:

Re: Release an rpm with a lower version than the existing one

2013-07-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 08:35 +0200, Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon wrote: > Hi all, > > Not so long ago I took over an rpm called dpm-dsi, being the released > version 1.9.0. > The release of that version was decided by upstream. > > However, now upstream has decided to deprecate 1.9.0 for the moment

Re: Release an rpm with a lower version than the existing one

2013-07-11 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 08:35:43 +0200 Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon wrote: > Hi all, > > Not so long ago I took over an rpm called dpm-dsi, being the released > version 1.9.0. > The release of that version was decided by upstream. > > However, now upstrea

Re: Release an rpm with a lower version than the existing one

2013-07-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/12/2013 08:35 AM, Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon wrote: Hi all, Not so long ago I took over an rpm called dpm-dsi, being the released version 1.9.0. The release of that version was decided by upstream. However, now upstream has decided to deprecate 1.9.0 for the moment being, since they conside

Re: Release an rpm with a lower version than the existing one

2013-07-14 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
> On 07/12/2013 08:35 AM, Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Not so long ago I took over an rpm called dpm-dsi, being the released >> version 1.9.0. >> The release of that version was decided by upstream. >> >> However, now upstream has decided to deprecate 1.9.0 for the moment >>