You do rsplit() by the '-'. Right part is R.A. you remove arch and get release.
What exactly you want to do? RPM and DNF have proper --queryformat. -Igor Gnatenko On Sep 28, 2016 8:52 PM, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Is it permitted to have a non-numeric Version field? > The guidelines are at best unclear on this topic: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Versioning#Version_Tag > > The lz4 package has version "r131": > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/lz4.git/tree/lz4.spec#n5 > > Corollary question: If I'm given an NVR string, how can I split it > into name, version and release? I was using the regexp > > ^(.*?)-(\d.*)-([^-]+)$ > > but that breaks on the lz4 package. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~ > rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many > powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top >
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