On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:08 -0700, Don Russell wrote: > Q: Why does this cause me grief? > A: I have automated mail handling that determines if these update > notices apply to my system, discarding those that do not (because I > already have the specified version installed, or the packageis not > installed at all) > > So, when I see there's an update to "vim", my code does an rpm -q vim to > see if vim is installed, and since that's not the correct name of the > package, I get a false negative. I think your check is going to suffer other problems, like when some other package supercedes something. Not all updates are direct replacements. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
