Re: [CentOS] Number and colon precedes some package names in yum.log

2010-05-10 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > What is the meaning of the "4:", "2:", "30:" and "1:" prefixes for the > following entries in yum.log?  Most entries in yum.log don't have > them. That's the "Epoch" in the package. An rpm package is characterised by NEVR, which is Name

[CentOS] Number and colon precedes some package names in yum.log

2010-05-10 Thread Keith Christian
What is the meaning of the "4:", "2:", "30:" and "1:" prefixes for the following entries in yum.log? Most entries in yum.log don't have them. grep "Installed: [0-9]*:" /var/log/yum.log May 07 16:45:53 Installed: 4:perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386 May 07 16:58:21 Installed: 2:xinetd-2.3.14-10.el5.i386 May 0