[CentOS] Number and colon precedes some package names in yum.log
Ralph Angenendt
ralph.angenendt at gmail.com
Mon May 10 15:38:51 UTC 2010
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Keith Christian
<keith1christian at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the meaning of the "4:", "2:", "30:" and "1:" prefixes for the
> following entries in yum.log? Most entries in yum.log don't have
> them.
That's the "Epoch" in the package.
An rpm package is characterised by NEVR, which is
Name
Epoch
Version
Release.
Cheers,
Ralph
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