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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