[Yum] erronious "-0"

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 23:54 +0100, Dean Earley wrote:
> I was playing with setting up my own repository, so I found a group of
> random RPMs, and run yum-arch on them, no problem. I go ahead and try a
> yum check-update, and it fails with a 404 on one of the headers. I check
> the RPM, and its correctly called:
> iproute2-2.2.4-now-ss990417-2.i386.rpm
> I check the header.info, and it correctly has:
> 0:iproute2-2.2.4-now-ss990417-2.i386=iproute2-2.2.4-now-ss990417-2.i386.rpm
> I then check for the header file and:
> iproute2-0-2.2.4-now-ss990417-2.i386.hdr
> Notice   ^
> The file it is requesting is:
> iproute2-2.2.4-now-0-ss990417-2.i386.hdr
> 
> yum-arch -vv only shows:
> Digesting rpm - iproute2-2.2.4-now-ss990417-2.i386.rpm - 77/214
> 
> This is with RedHat 9, and Yum 2.0.4.
> 
> Any suggestions or ideas?

the -0 is the epoch for the package (No epoch is a 0 epoch)

that's why the header has this in there. to distinguish a package of the
same name, arch, release and version (but different epoch) from another
package.

It's not a bug.

-sv