Re: Leading number in package names when updating with yum

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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