RE: Wrong compare on version numbers

Hello,

if you have to update a lot of SuSE-Servers (*), this is not
really a good idea, because you can't run --interactive on all
servers for every patch.

I run "fou4s -i -r; fou4s --auto;" per cron on all servers and
send "fou4s -e" per Mail to monitor everything. If this is
not really a save: can you change fou4s in a way, that patches
with different version number structure are only installed
by "fou4s -i --interactive" but not by "fou4s -i"?

Bye,

Christof

(*) I manage 60 SuSE-Servers with fou4s. Thank you for this great tool!

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>From: [email protected]=20
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Markus Gaugusch
>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:42 AM
>To: Rudolf Kollien
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Fou4s-devel] Wrong compare on version numbers
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>> on my box (SuSE 9.3) the actual KDE updates from the=20
>supplementary directory
>> are previously installed with YOU. My current version of KDE=20
>ist 3.4.2 (all
>> SuSE rpms). Now when using fou4s (the supplementary server=20
>with rsync in the
>> config file is activated) i get the following output:
>>
>> kdebase3-SuSE     9.3-39.5   (9.3-39.3     ) [dl] recommended   334kb
>> kdegraphics3      3.4.0-11.3 (3.4.2-3      ) [dl] recommended  1769kb
>> kdegraphics3-pdf  3.4.0-11.2 (3.4.2-3      ) [dl] security      635kb
>> kdenetwork3       3.4.0-16.4 (3.4.2-3      ) [dl] security     1400kb
>>
>> I think, 3.4.2 is higher than 3.4.0. How can this problem be solved?
>
>The problem is, that the version number structure is different=20
>(3.4.x-y.z vs. 3.4.x-y), which causes fou4s to use a "fail safe" mode=20
>which takes the newer RPM (by build date).
>You can run fou4s -i --interactive and just skip those updates=20
>with "s".
>
>Markus
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