> I haven't seen it in front of names, only in front of versions. Why > don't you simply use the notation of the header files (name-epoch-andsoon)? take a look in header.info and notice the notation there :) try parsing via regexes name-epoch-ver-rel.arch then try parsing via regexes epoch:name-ver-rel.arch :) what if I displayed them as: name epoch:ver-rel.arch? would that look good enough to everyone? leaving out the epoch if it equals 0. > Praying for an epoch free rpm 6.0 ... good luck. -sv