> Won't quite work -- the alphabetical ordering of versions isn't > necessarily correct wrt rpm's versioning. rpmvercmp is a bit more > complicated, unfortunately. import rpm rc = rpm.labelCompare((e1, v1, r1), (e2, v2, r2)) rc = 1: the first set is newer than the second set rc = 0: they are the same version rc = -1: the second set is newer than the first set -sv