Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Not only did this program not do what you incate it does, it seems to
> give me the opposite answer:
> [root@localhost ~]# fedora-rpmvercmp
> Epoch1 :0
> Version1 :6
> Release1 :5-7
> Epoch2 :0
> Version2 :6
> Release2 :5-7L
> 0:6-5-7L is newer
>
> How come?
Because if you have foo-0.6.5-7L.fc7, the epoch is unset (which is the
same as 0 to rpm), the version is 0.6.5, and the release is 7L.fc7.
$ fedora-rpmvercmp
Epoch1 :0
Version1 :0.6.5
Release1 :7L.fc7
Epoch2 :0
Version2 :0.6.5
Release2 :7.fc7
0:0.6.5-7.fc7 is newer
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