Hi, Can't the first element in the tuples that I pass to the Python rpm.labelCompare() funtion be just hdr[rpm.RPMTAG_EPOCH]? Jeff's <http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2003-July/msg00216.html> example suggests that this is possible, but it seems to produce a TypeError with a package where epoch is "0": TypeError: argument 1, item 0 must be string or None, not int. If this is true, can I then just use "str(hdr[rpm.RPMTAG_EPOCH])" or will this fail because this yields the *string* "None" for unset epoch values? Suggestions? -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204