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josephg

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 118

[SOLVED] Bash script and comparison between $pkgver - how to?

I deal with (maintain) some lib32 packages and I'm try to make a sh script to compare version of specified packages to tell me "need to update". e.g.: ppl and lib32-ppl.
A simple [ $onepkgver -lt $otherpkgver ] will not work, because they are not integer, so I think I'll need to work on strings, splitting them for each dot found.

Any suggestion of an approach to solve this issue?

Thanks!

Last edited by josephg (2012-04-23 04:09:33)

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Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: [SOLVED] Bash script and comparison between $pkgver - how to?

pacman (package) includes vercmp.

Last edited by Raynman (2012-04-22 19:59:04)

josephg

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 118

Re: [SOLVED] Bash script and comparison between $pkgver - how to?

Awesome, thanks!

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