[Tutor] How to Compare rpm version using Python Script

[David Rock]

* Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> [2019-11-29 07:20]:
> 
> Will say that a challenge is going to be to distinguish the package names
> from the versions when you're reading from a file.  For the installed
> packages this is easy, rpm already knows how to do that, and it's not a
> Python problem at all - your example above already shows how, you just put a
> separator between the pieces you want to look like different words, for
> example '%{name} %{version}'.

To reinforce this idea...  do NOT use hyphens in your rpm -q command; use
spaces instead.  It will make it a LOT easier to separate the name from the
version (many names contain hyphens) to compare against the lists.

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David Rock
david at graniteweb.com