Leading number in package names when updating with yum

[Joachim Backes]

On 02/17/2010 08:49 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:26:43 +0100,
>    Joachim Backes<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> can somebody explain what the leading number in some package names
>> means when running "yum update", for example
>>
>> Feb 17 07:25:19 Updated: 1:openoffice.org-calc-3.1.1-19.26.fc12.i686
>
> It's the epoch.

Thank you for information.

Regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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