Leading number in package names when updating with yum

Wed Feb 17 08:02:26 UTC 2010

On 17/02/10 08:49, 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.

Which is?

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Erik