Hi All,
During updates I see a number preceding the package to be updated as indicated in the below example:
1:perl-Module-Build-0.3500-119.el6_1.1.x86_64 ^ Does anyone know what does this indicates?
Thank you,
Phil
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.
On 07/13/2012 06:30 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
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.
Thank you, sir.
Phil
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