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Re: RPM Version Number Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Morrissey)
Fri Nov 15 18:27:11 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:48:38 -0500 (EST)
From: John Morrissey <john@rpa.net>
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On 14 Nov, Paul Waldo wrote:
Somebody probably just didn't put the dots in when building the 27063-1
package. Sometimes rpm gets confused with versions this way. It's
probably safe to just use 'rpm -Uvh --force ftp://....' on it.
HTH,
John
> I am trying to add the latest xanim package. Rpm -q xanim gives:
> xanim-27063-1
>
> I ran rpm and got the following message:
> Retrieving
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/RPMS/xanim-2.70.6.3-2.i386.rpm
> xanim package xanim-27063-1 (which is newer) is
> already installed
>
> Is this true and if so, why. Thanks.
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