Re: [MiNT] RPMs

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:43:26 , Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On sunnuntai 16 joulukuu 2012, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > I am just updating and had this error:
> >
> > bash-2.05a# rpm -Uvh libpng-1.5.9-1.m68kmint.rpm
> > package libpng-1.2.5-2 (which is newer than libpng-1.5.9-1) is already
> > installed
> >
> > I can probably force it but I was puzzled why rpm thinks this.
>
> Did the 1.2.5-2 RPM package use Epoch tag and is the newer one missing that?
>
> (Epoch tags are a way to force order on version number changes
> that don't conform to distribution version number comparison rules.)
>
>
>     - Eero
>
>


How do I check if it uses an Epoch tag ?

Peter