On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:45, Aleksander Demko wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 16:07, seth vidal wrote: > > the format for the .hdr filename is: > > > > name-epoch-ver-rel.arch.hdr > > What is the epoch, BTW, or is it documented the source, which I should > be reading? :) epoch is another version-related string that rpm has setup for trumping ver-rel. the idea is that ver-rel might not always be newer even though you want this other ver to be considered newer. So you use epoch. it's not a yum-ism - it's an rpm-ism. -sv
