diff --git a/client/patchman-client b/client/patchman-client
index f94260d6..9831caff 100755
--- a/client/patchman-client
+++ b/client/patchman-client
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ get_installed_rpm_packages() {
             echo 'Finding installed rpms...'
         fi
 
-        rpm -qa --queryformat "'%{NAME}' '%{EPOCH}' '%{version}' '%{RELEASE}' '%{ARCH}' 'rpm'\n" 2>/dev/null \
+        rpm -qa --queryformat "'%{NAME}' '%{version}' '%{RELEASE}' '%{ARCH}' 'rpm'\n" 2>/dev/null \
         | sed -e 's/(none)//g' \
         | sed -e 's/\+/%2b/g' >> "${tmpfile_pkg}"
 
diff --git a/repos/utils.py b/repos/utils.py
index eb1dc06d..fba4f88b 100644
--- a/repos/utils.py
+++ b/repos/utils.py
@@ -293,7 +293,6 @@ def extract_yum_packages(data, url):
                               namespaces={'ns': ns})[0].text
             fullversion = elem.xpath('//ns:version',
                                      namespaces={'ns': ns})[0]
-            epoch = fullversion.get('epoch')
             version = fullversion.get('ver')
             release = fullversion.get('rel')
             elem.clear()
@@ -301,10 +300,8 @@ def extract_yum_packages(data, url):
                 del elem.getparent()[0]
 
             if name != '' and version != '' and arch != '':
-                if epoch == '0':
-                    epoch = ''
                 package = PackageString(name=name,
-                                        epoch=epoch,
+                                        epoch='',
                                         version=version,
                                         release=release,
                                         arch=arch,