rpmvercmp (was: dovecot imap available for testing, latest upstream release 0.99.10.6)
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