Package management - howto

[Andy Green]

Dan Track wrote:

> Does anyone have a script to move old updates to another directory and
> keep new updates in one directory. I tried writing one, but the major
> problem is the version nomenclature. Some packages have "+"signs, some
> have words in them, there isn't a consistency here. How does redhat
> keep there online repository in order, can I get a hold of a script?

Get RPM to parse for you in your script, eg

rpm -qp /path/to/rpmfile.rpm --queryformat "%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{ARCH}"

Then use cut, etc to get the whitespace delimited output.

-Andy
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