Rick Stevens wrote:
> To humans, yes, but the "L" parses later than the corresponding ".":
>
> |
> v
> foo-0.6.5-7.fc7.rpm
> foo-0.6.5-7L.fc7.rpm
> ^
> |
>
> I suspect the script is doing a character-by-character comparison, so
> the shorter string has precedence and the "." is earlier in the ASCII
> sequence than the "L" as well.
The fedora-rpmvercmp script uses the python interface to rpm and calls
the labelCompare function to do the comparison. So the rules used are
what rpm uses. I find it's best not to think to hard about the odd
ways that rpm tries to deal with versioning. ;)
The point is that it's a good tool to use in a situation like Aaron
had where he needed to know whether the EVR (epoch, version, release)
he was planning to use would evaluate as newer by rpm.
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