rpm -qi <packagename> might give you more detailed information. If not, as a last resort, you can download and installed the SRPM and then look at the name of the tarball in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.
Prentice Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: > The context was wrt the OpenMPI version that is bundled with a specific > version of CentOS Linux which my IT folks are about to install on one of > our servers. Since the most recent 1.4 stream version is 1.4.3, I'm > afraid that 1.4-4 is really some variant of 1.4 (i.e., 1.4.0) and hence > not that new. > > > > > From: Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> > To: Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> > Date: 02/02/2011 07:38 PM > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI version syntax? > Sent by: users-boun...@open-mpi.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > On Feb 2, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: > >> I've encountered a supposed OpenMPI version of 1.4-4. Is the hyphen a > typo or is this syntax correct and if so what does it mean? > > Is this an RPM version number? It's fairly common for RPMs to add "-X" > at the end of the version number. The "X" indicates the RPM version > number (i.e., the version number of the packaging -- not the package > itself). > > Open MPI's version number scheme is explained here: > > http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/versions/ > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ >
