[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release dsniff-2.4-0.b1.1.mga2

[Pascal Terjan]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 21:05, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
> On 02.01.2012 12:21, guillomovitch wrote:
>> Name        : dsniff                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
>> Version     : 2.4                               Vendor: Mageia.Org
>> Release     : 0.b1.1.mga2                   Build Date: Mon Jan  2 11:18:17 2012
>> Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: ecosse
>> Group       : Monitoring                    Source RPM: (none)
>> Size        : 210074                           License: BSD
>> Signature   : (none)
>> Packager    : guillomovitch <guillomovitch>
>> URL         : http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/
>> Summary     : Network audit tools
>> Description :
>> Tools to audit network and to demonstrate the insecurity of cleartext
>> network protocols. Please do not abuse this software.
>>
>> guillomovitch <guillomovitch> 2.4-0.b1.1.mga2:
>> + Revision: 189630
>> - drop epoch, we don't care about updating from mdv anymore
>
> We don't?
>
> Previous upgraders like me still have dsniff-2.4-0.b2.14mdv2010.1 on
> their MGA1 / cauldron systmes, which won't get upgraded to the MGA
> package without epoch.
> IMHO the epoch should be added.
>
>
> Also, not your fault but it seems genhdlist didn't handle the removal of
> epoch without altering rpm file name well, hdlists still show the epoch,
> causing urpmi to try upgrading to the now epoch-less version, causing
> the transaction to be rejected by rpm.

Yes genhdlist2 only considers the filename to decide if a package was
added/removed, and keeps the header if filename didn't change