On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 00:23, Werner Puschitz wrote:
>
> Is there a simple way to find out which RPM version is newer?
>
> For instance I have a bunch of RPM files with the same RPM name but with
> different version numbers.
> Doing a numeric comparison doesn't work in all cases since some versions
> contain letters like "x", "p", etc. And doing a string comparison doesn't
> work either when you have numbers like "9" and "13" which would result in
> "9" being greater.
>
> Is there a simple method to find out which RPM version is newer?
>
I compare buildtimes in the script I wrote to remove duplicate rpms from
my local updates dir.
rpm -qp --queryformat '%{BUILDTIME}'
Bret
> Thanks
> Werner
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
--
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
