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

Wed Jan 4 01:32:22 CET 2012

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
+