Shell Script - Compare packages. rpm

[Tiago Dias]

Thanks for help!

2009/1/26 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>

> I would do something like this:
>
> Use the rpm queryformat functionality of rpm to print out the version
> of the package:
>
>  rpm -q --queryformat '%{VERSION}' glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.39
>
> This will print out the version, something like:
>
> 2.3.4-2.39
>
> Which can then be compared against a newer version (for this part you
> Would need to get update.out filename list into a similar format).
>
>
> Geofrey Rainey
> Systems Engineer
> D. 64 9 916 7178
> M. 64 21 563 106
> geofrey.rainey at tvnz.co.nz
>
>
>
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