Fedora 7 Update: vim-7.1.12-1.fc7
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Jul 12 02:34:49 UTC 2007
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.
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[tim at 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.
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