Re: question about epoch

[Michael Honeyfield <mhoneyfield xtra co nz>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 09:36, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.

Cool.. Thank you for your help :) 

Mike

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