Mark wrote : > some more info on the versions like how they are calculated > and in which case would be helpfull.. or a link to the file > that i need to look through Someone already answered that one, I'm afraid : The rpm source code. You can speculate all you want on "replacement" methods to compare versions, but chances you'll get it right are near zero... unless you use the exact same algorithm (and trick and hacks?) than rpm itself. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.20-1.2943.fc6 Load : 2.17 2.18 2.37 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list