Re: [CentOS] Curiosity Question

2012-07-13 Thread Phil Savoie
On 07/13/2012 06:30 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > 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,

Re: [CentOS] Curiosity Question

2012-07-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
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 ve

[CentOS] Curiosity Question

2012-07-13 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi All, During updates I see a number preceding the package to be updated as indicated in the below example: 1:perl-Module-Build-0.3500-119.el6_1.1.x86_64 ^ Does anyone know what does this indicates? Thank you, Phil -- Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) _