it`s only logic to assume that 1.10 is higher than 1.9... but for the 1.2b3 things.. those will require another check. <div>2007/4/10, Matthew Miller <<a href="mailto:mattdm@mattdm.org">mattdm@mattdm.org</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:13:31AM +0200, Mark wrote: > > What Seth is getting at is that this is harder than you think. Once you > >start doing it in the complete way (which is required for correct > >answers), you'll loose speed. > is there anything more to check besides the requires and provides with the > versions? All sorts of stuff. Check the yum source code. For starters the other things mentioned already:, epochs, and the fact that all packages are considered to be providing all files they contain, even with dependencies. But consider this too: RPM's notion of version comparison is a bit unintuitive when it comes to mixing letters and numbers -- is 1.2b3 greater or less than 1.20? What about 1.2.0? And for that matter, is 1.9 higher than 1.10? -- Matthew Miller <a href="mailto:mattdm@mattdm.org">mattdm@mattdm.org</a> <<a href="http://mattdm.org/">http://mattdm.org/</a>> Boston University Linux ------> < <a href="http://linux.bu.edu/">http://linux.bu.edu/</a>> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div>