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Re: [MiNT] RPMs

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Subject: Re: [MiNT] RPMs
From: Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:43:26 +0200
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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

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