[Yum] slight difference in RPM names when doing "yum list updates"

[Sean O'Connell]

Robert-

That number is the epoch.

Sean

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 06:29, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   not sure if this is specifically a yum question, or a fedora core
> question, but as i was doing a "yum list updates" in prep for updating
> my FC2-test1 system, i was watching the headers output going by and
> noticed a slight (but consistent) difference in package names:
> 
>   in repo:       samba-3.0.2...
>   in output:     samba-0-3.0.2...
> 
> what's with that extra "-0" in the output from "yum list updates"?
> and that happens fairly frequently.
> 
>   i'm sure it's insignificant, i'm just puzzled as to what it
> represents.  (for other packages, it might be "1" instead.)
>   
> rday
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