RPM Version and Release query

[James Antill]

On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 15:21 +0530, Sphurti A Phopale wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Is it possible to build 2 rpm packages with different major versions,
> different install locations but with same package name. The requirement is
> when the user installs these packages, he should be able to install both
> independently.
> 
> For e.g.
> Currently, we have package
> A) ibm-xxx-i386-xxx-6.0-9.0.i386.rpm ( name : ibm-xxx-i386-xxx version:6.0
> release:9.0)
> 
> We are now moving to newer release
> 
> B) ibm-xxx-i386-xxx-7.0-0.0.i386.rpm (name:ibm-xxx-i386-xxx version:7.0
> release:0.0)
> 
> Currently, on installing the package B first and then package A we get
> following error
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> package ibm-xxx-i386-xxx-7.0-0.0 (which is newer than
> ibm-xxx-i386-xxx-6.0-9.0) is already installed
> 
>  Is it possible to make B package an independent package and make it
> co-exist with packageA

 See:

http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/MultipleVersions

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http://illiterat.livejournal.com/7660.html