[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] version comparison with epoch does not work as expected (#450)

[Michal Novotný]

I have just hit this problem where for my package in my spec file, I have:

    Requires: tar >= 1.28

which on EPEL7 currently gets satisfied by already installed tar `2:1.26`. The thing is that I really need tar `1.28` or higher because of `--exclude-vcs-ignores` feature that was added in `1.28`. A newer version of tar with the required feature is available in my enabled copr but it does not get installed from there because rpm says `2:1.26` is enough to satisfy `tar >= 1.28`.

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