rpmvercmp (was: dovecot imap available for testing, latest upstream release 0.99.10.6)
Michal Jaegermann
michal at harddata.com
Thu Jul 1 20:28:22 UTC 2004
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:23:53PM -0400, John Dennis wrote:
>
> No assumptions should be made about the format of the release string
> other than it collate correctly when presented to rpmvercmp (the
> comparison function in rpm which has specific well defined semantics).
How you are using rpmvercmp, say, in a shell script? AFAIK there is
no interface which would make that available. Or this is one of
those undocumented mysteries of rpm?
> Unfortunately we are pretty much stuck with n-v-r for historical
> reasons.
This I can reliably pick apart using --queryformat but now what?
In case you wonder if I need that in shell scripts and similar then
the answer is that indeed I do (and many others too). A comparison
utility which would compare (or even collate but that I can do
myself) according to rpmvercmp would be really useful.
Michal
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