Re: howto check version numbers? TIA

[Peter Palfrader]

Hi zhaoway!

On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, zhaoway wrote:

> hi,
> how could i check a version number is newer than another? i'm doing
> a little toy-auto-builder.
> thanks!

dpkg --compare-versions ver1 op ver2

see man dpkg(8) for more info

HTH
                                        yours,
                                        peter

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