RE: Wrong compare on version numbers

Markus Gaugusch <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:18:01 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.fou4s.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 18, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

That's true.

> I run "fou4s -i -r; fou4s --auto;" per cron on all servers and
> send "fou4s -e" per Mail to monitor everything.

I hope it's the other way round, or is it on purpose, that you install 
the files found on the day before, and then download new ones?

> 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"?

The original poster used non-YOU RPMs (inofficial SuSE KDE update). If 
you are only using the standard YOU RPMs there should not be any 
problem. In fact, this behaviour is copied from YOU (at least I was told 
that this is the behaviour of YOU).

> (*) I manage 60 SuSE-Servers with fou4s. Thank you for this great tool!
Nice to hear! :-))

Markus
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