On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> You would think that rpm would be able to tell that 1.6.1 > 1.4.2, right?
> Wrong. This morning, I built a new RPM of xchat, using the latest stable
> release, 1.6.1. I built it myself to support SSL and other stuff.
>
> Filing a bugzilla report, but this is too bizarre to not mention here.
The bug report really isn't necessary, as this is not a bug. Get a copy
of "Maximum RPM", and read about the "Epoch" attribute in the spec file.
That will explain what you are seeing. Personally, I think that "Epoch"
is weird and abused in this context.
MSG
--
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics,
Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.
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