Tom Horsley wrote:
When running a yum update, I watch lots of lines something like this scroll past: update : somepackage-someversion... But sometimes it says something like: update : 2:somepackage-someversion... What the heck does the 2: prefix on the package name mean? (or 1: or whatever digit it prints - it varies).
Its the "epoch" number of the version numbers. Basically any version with a bigger epoch is more recent than one with a smaller epoch. In that way, changes in versioning can be kept track of.
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