[CentOS] Curiosity Question
Leonard den Ottolander
leonard at den.ottolander.nlFri Jul 13 10:30:49 UTC 2012
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Hello Phil, On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 05:52 -0400, Phil Savoie wrote: > 1:perl-Module-Build-0.3500-119.el6_1.1.x86_64 > ^ > Does anyone know what does this indicates? It's the epoch, which is essentially a version override, i.e. any version of a package with an epoch of 1 is more recent than a version without an epoch (epoch = 0). It was conceived to overcome issues caused by poor versioning. For example package-1beta-1 vs. 1:package-1-2 (1beta > 1, epoch to the rescue) Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
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