Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (83 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:19:15AM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> > i have a problem with one of my packages, python-openssl: the previous
> > version was called 0.7a and the current one is 0.7.
> > However, in rpm's (and zypp's) view 0.7a > 0.7 and the package will
> > break distribution upgrade because it won't let itself be "downgraded".
> >
> > How can i work around this? Is it possible to e.g. specify that the
> > newer one Obsoletes: %{name} = 0.7a and be done with it?
>
> $ rpmvercmp 0.7a 0.7+final
> :0.7+final-0 is newer

Just to clarify: rpm splits on all non-alphanumeric characters
and compares the substrings. Thus "final" is compared against "a",

(But as said before: dist-upgrade has no problems with downgrading.
Just be sure that there's no repository still enabled with the
old version.)

Cheers,
  Michael.

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