[CentOS] yum update error

Tue Oct 12 12:09:15 UTC 2010
Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com>

>I've always wondered what the 1: means at the beginning of a package name?

Epoch Tag, see http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html
jlc