Re: [tbox-l] the libpng rpm's

[Jørn A. <Jor...@nt...>]

Thank you for the clarification, Reza!

I actually got rid of it by using the force switch. Thanks for the
reference. Your reference reminds me I ordered a hard copy of this
book months ago, still waiting. :-) Notice maximum rpm also points ut
epoch isn't a good thing, and should be avoided if possible.

Epoch:2 is present in Fedora8 and 9, and could be where you got it.

Best Regards --joern



On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Reza Arbab wrote:

> Hi Jørn,
>
> On 05 Oct 2008, 01:52PM CDT, Jørn Amundsen <Jor...@nt...> wrote:
> > cannot remove /usr/include - directory not empty
> > cannot remove /usr/lib - directory not empty
> > cannot remove /usr/bin - directory not empty
>
> The Toolbox packages have been rebuilt to correct this:
>
> <ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/libpng/libpng-1.2.8-7.aix5.2.ppc.rpm>
> <ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/libpng/libpng-devel-1.2.8-7.aix5.2.ppc.rpm>
>
> > Furthermore, when trying to update the beast, /usr/bin/rpm figures out
> > the release 1.2.8 > 1.2.32 and bails out on update:
>
> This is because the 1.2.8 package has an epoch number of 2.  I suspect the
> 1.2.32 package you are installing has an unspecified epoch number, and thus
> RPM interprets its version to be a lesser value.
>
> <http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-depend-manual-dependencies.html#S4-RPM-DEPEND-VERSION-EPOCH>
>
> The "Epoch: 2" line in the spec file was introduced in our first libpng-1.2.8
> release, and almost certainly came from whichever Linux distribution's
> package we based ours on.
>
> It's unfortunate, but there's no way to remove the epoch now.  Doing so is
> essentially a step backwards in version.  So, you can either force install
> your 1.2.32 package, or first rebuild it to also have an epoch number of 2.
>
>
> --
> Reza Arbab
> ar...@au...
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