--- Richard Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do we do a query for collecting the exact
> version of a particular rpm or package installed. I
> sometimes run into trouble trying to load an rpm
> which may be older than the one I have. I want to
> write a script which will get the version number of
> the rpm installed so that we know if the current rpm
> is newer or not.
rpm -qa --queryformat
'%-30{NAME}\t%-10{VERSION}\t%-20{RELEASE}\n'|less
Regards,
Nadiem.
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