Re: RPM Version Number Sort Logic

[Erik Troan <ewt redhat com>]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, David Christensen wrote:

> Reading "Maximum RPM", as long as there is no dash in the version number,
> RPM should be able to handle version number correctly.  In a situation where
> an older version is numbered 1.6.031 and a newer verision is numbered
> 1.61.032, will RPM handle this correctly when asked to do an update?
> Numerically, 61 is greater than 6 so it should be newer, but using an ASCII
> sort, "1.6." is earlier than "1.61". 

If RPM can use numerical comparison, it will.

Erik

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