yum trivia question
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Jun 19 18:50:34 UTC 2009
Tom Horsley wrote:
> When running a yum update, I watch lots of lines something
> like this scroll past:
>
> update : somepackage-someversion...
>
> But sometimes it says something like:
>
> update : 2:somepackage-someversion...
>
> What the heck does the 2: prefix on the package name mean?
> (or 1: or whatever digit it prints - it varies).
Its the "epoch" number of the version numbers. Basically any version
with a bigger epoch is more recent than one with a smaller epoch. In
that way, changes in versioning can be kept track of.
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Kevin J. Cummings
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