Re: Curiosity Question

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Phil,

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 05:52 -0400, Phil Savoie wrote:
>   1:perl-Module-Build-0.3500-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
>   ^
> Does anyone know what does this indicates?

It's the epoch, which is essentially a version override, i.e. any
version of a package with an epoch of 1 is more recent than a version
without an epoch (epoch = 0). It was conceived to overcome issues caused
by poor versioning.

For example
package-1beta-1
vs.
1:package-1-2

(1beta > 1, epoch to the rescue)

Regards,
Leonard.

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