Pirut listing output prepends digit :
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Thu Oct 1 23:34:37 UTC 2009
vs writes:
> Hi list,
>
> When looking at the output of pirut in the GUI, I see packages listed as 1:x11-rest-of-name or 30:bind-rest-of-name. What does the digit that precedes the name of the package mean?
The package's epoch version. Look it up.
Executive summary: it's an ugly hack meant to be a workaround for certain
rpm limitations, that will, unfortunately, be with us until our sun
explodes. And maybe a bit longer than that.
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