Re: question about epoch

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:35:47AM +1300, Michael Honeyfield wrote:
> hrmm.. I thought it still worked on a version number basis too. Thats
> cool.. I just want to be sure I understand this :) 
> So package foo = 12:1.0-10 will install over foo = 1:2.0-1 ? 

Yeah. It's simple, really. Epoch is considered before version number --
version number is only looked at if epoch matches.





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