Ah, that is probably also why RHEL5's openoffice.org-2.0.x keeps wanting 
to install even though I have 2.3!

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I built R-2.6.0 from the fedora distribution and was using it in my
> SL5 systems.
>
> Today I noticed that when yum ran, it wanted to update that version
> with the old one from SL5, 2.4  . That was weird.  Why install an old
> one?
>
> After some checking, I learned that the Epoch had been set at 2 on the
> RPM from the SL 5 distribution.  I've been knocking around in the RPM
> building community for about 10 years and I've never been persuaded
> the epoch serves a valid purpose, especially when it comes to
> differentiating R-2.4 from R-2.6 or whatnot.  The Epoch only
> frustrates people who are trying to stay up to date.   The Epoch is a
> frustrating value in this case because so 2:2.4.1 appears to  be
> newer than 0:2.6.0.
>
> Just singing the complaining song...
>
>

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