Michael Schwendt said: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 03:21:17 -0400, Eric Bourque wrote: >> I would like to use NFS based kickstart installs, and would therefore >> like to apply all of the updates to my RedHat/i386/RPMS directory, which >> requires removing all versions of an rpm but the most recent. Is anyone >> aware of a script which will do such a thing? There used to be something >> called munge rpm but I can't find it anymore ... > > Seen recently on fedora-devel, two helper tools: > > http://www.fedora.us/pipermail/fedora-devel/2003-July/001828.html > > Feel free to follow up there. Or if you'd like to write your own simple script - the only trick is of course comparing two epoch/version/release Here's a simple script that I though was the easiest way to compare two same packages. The last line has probably wrapped due to email. #!/usr/bin/python # # usage: $0 Epoch1 Version1 Release1 Epoch2 Version2 Release2 # # prints: -x if 1 < 2 # 0 if 1 = 2 # x if 1 > 2 # import rpm import sys print rpm.labelCompare((sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2],sys.argv[3]),(sys.argv[4],sys.argv[5],sys.argv[6])) -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
