Re: [squid-users] Version sequence

Yes, it is safe to use the --oldpackage option, in this case.

I'm not sure why the RH package behaves that way--clearly STABLE6 is
higher than STABLE1. But Red Hat versioning is a bit strangely sometimes.

Let me know how it turns out. Hopefully it is a drop-in replacement.

Simon Bryan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I went to install 2.4.stable 6 and got this message from the rpm package
> manger in Webmin:
>
> package squid-2.4.STABLE1-5 (which is newer than squid-2.4.STABLE6-1rh) is
> already installed
>
>
> is it lying? Can I safely tell it to overwrite the 'newer' package with the
> old? This is running on a P11 233 RH7.2 64MB (my home system - only three
> clients)
>
> The original version came with RH7.2 as the default install.

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