Jeff Johnson: > This simply is not true. What is not true? Could you please include sentence you are referring to? > Whatever "rpm format" means, historically RPM itself has always gone to some lengths not to expose E: to users to simplify the endless fog of dependency hell clutter. Rpm does not print epoch in in standard --query output only in --info mode. $ rpm -q bind-libs bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 $ rpm -qi bind-libs Name : bind-libs Epoch : 32 Version : 9.9.4 Release : 61.el7 Architecture: x86_64 ... It understands N-V-R.A or N-E:V-R.A as an argument but not E:N-V-R.A. $ rpm -q bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 bind-libs-32:9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 32:bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 package 32:bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 is not installed -- Michael Mráka System Management Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/4LNMWBXTPGWDYQCE2LJIVG6QCPDUH6FL/
