Re: rpmvercmp (was: dovecot imap available for testing, latest upstream release 0.99.10.6)

[Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:16:31PM -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:28, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > How you are using rpmvercmp, say, in a shell script?  AFAIK there is
> > no interface which would make that available.
> 
> You can use the rpm python bindings, see attached script (rpmvercmp.py).

Thanks.  This will be useful.

> Credit and thanks go to Jerry Katz who showed me the python bindings and
> patiently explained many things to me.

Right.  Unfortunately JK does not come bundled in rpm, even in
rawhide, so this resource is not widely available. :-)

  Michal