[CentOS-devel] Confusing package versioning

[Karanbir Singh]

On 05/04/2011 03:51 PM, David Hollis wrote:
> Would httpd-2.2.3-45.el5_6.centos.1 possibly be more appropriate (albeit

not really. Look at it from the point of view of what that el5_6 
represents upstream.

also, Ned if you look back at the history of the RHEL platform you will 
see that the actual tag isnt used in update comparisons.

- KB