197337 - 1.3 is considered lower than 1.3b (or 1.3a) in rpm semantics.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Axel Thimm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030302
Build Identifier: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.3/Red_Hat_8x_RPMS/

Both 1.3b and 1.3 have the same serial/epoch (35). The rpm version comparison
algorithm will sort 1.3b as newer than 1.3, if the serial/epoch is the same.
Therefore upgrades will not be successfull installed unless with special
command line arguments (--oldpackage), or uninstalling the previous mozilla.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download 1.3 rpms
2. try rpm -Fhv ... or rpm -Uhv ...
3.

Actual Results:  
The new rpms were considered older than the ones installed.

Expected Results:  
It should upgrade the old mozilla.

Same should be true for upgrade 1.3a -> 1.3.

(Note: It would be nice if future mozilla alpha/beta etc releases could have a
linear numeric version scheme, for example 1.3a could have been 1.2.9 and 1.3b
1.2.99)

Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

rpms -> blizzard

Comment 2

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Sorry, that's rpm for you.  (I wish there was a CANTFIX resolution.)

Comment 3

[Luke Ross]

Out of interest, why didn't I get this when I upgraded 1.2b -> 1.2 then?