On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Bret Hughes wrote:
> 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}'
>
I finally found a way to compare RPM versions.
I download the src RPM "rpmver" from rpmfind.net. The i386 RPM doesn't
work on 7.3 due to shared library dependencies. So I downloaded the src
RPM and I rebuilt it on 7.3.
# rpmver
RPM version comparation tool - Version 1.2.2
Usage: rpmver <version_string1> <version_string2>
rpmver --version
(version and license information)
version_string = Epoch:Version-Release
Epoch and/or Release can be omited
Example: rpmver 1.1a 1.1test
rpmver 1.2-1cl 1.3-99cl
Return codes:
1 - Version1 is newer
0 - Versions are equal
-1 - Version2 is newer
-2 - rpmver version and copyright info returned
-3 - Paramter error, returning usage info
-4 - Version too long error
-5 - Release or Epoch only present in one of the version strings
-6 - Epoch must be a positive integer
#
Example:
# rpmver glibc-profile-2.2.5-37.i386.rpm glibc-profile-2.2.5-39.i386.rpm
RPM version comparation tool - Version 1.2.2
glibc-profile-2.2.5-39.i386.rpm is newer
#
Werner
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