Yum oddness

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 15:14:13 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:43 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 07/21/2010 10:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I did a "yum upgrade" and was offered:
> > 
> > qbittorrent                             x86_64                 1:2.2.8-2.fc13
> > 
> > even though I currently have:
> > 
> > $ rpm -q qbittorrent
> > qbittorrent-2.2.9-1.fc13.x86_64
> > 
> > (Note the version numbers)
> > 
> > I said 'N' because it seems at least counter-intuitive. Is there any way
> > to check that the proposed upgrade really supersedes the installed
> > version, or should I complain to the qbt maintainer?
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> 
> You see the 1: before the version number in the version you were
> offered? That means that an epoch bump occurred (this is used primarily
> to deal with when a package has changed version number schemes and the
> new version numbers are lower than the old ones)
> 
> It is also done in very rare occasions to force a downgrade from a
> known-bad version of a piece of software.
> 
> - From the update description:
>         * Tue Jul 20 2010 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux at googlemail.com> -
> 2.2.8-2 - add epoch and revert version to 2.2.8 as the newer versions
> violate the bundled libs guidelines
> 
> The newer version 2.2.9 was in violation of Fedora policies
> (specifically, bundled libs can have unfixed security vulnerabilities),
> so the epoch was bumped to force a downgrade.

Thanks Stephen (and Mamoru). I did notice the epoch number but "rpm -qi"
on the current version (2.2.9) doesn't show the epoch so I wasn't sure.

poc



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