On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:09 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > 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. ;) I'm sort of afraid to even look at that code. ;-p Python gives me a headache! > 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. Yup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
