On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Alan Dunn wrote:
I want to conditionally apply a patch in a spec file based upon the
version of a package. (There's an emacs package that needs a patch to
work with the latest version of xemacs, but this patch shouldn't be
applied for previous versions of xemacs.) I know that for checking
something like Fedora version numbers I can use
%if 0%{?fedora} > 9
...
%endif
but is there an easy way to do this for a version number in say, EVR
form? That is, something like
%if %{program_version} > 1.2.3
...
%endif
(%{program_version} will always be defined)
RPM doesn't seem to support a mechanism like this in %if conditionals
(I believe having a digit first causes rpmbuild to try and interpret
the result as a number), though clearly there is a mechanism for
examining EVRs of this form for other parts of rpmbuild.
One could try something like
%if "%{prorgram_version}" > "1.2.3"
which does string comparison, but this doesn't work for some version
combinations, since, for example, we would want 1.10.1 > 1.9.1
In rpm >= 4.7.0 the real rpm version comparison algorithm is available to
the embedded Lua interpreter as rpm.vercmp(), eg:
[pmati...@localhost ~]$ rpm --eval "%{lua:print(rpm.vercmp('1.2.3-1',
'1.1.1-1'))}"
1
[pmati...@localhost ~]$ rpm --eval "%{lua:print(rpm.vercmp('1.2.3-1',
'5:1.1.1-1'))}"
-1
With older rpm versions you need to do "something else", such as call
rpmdev-vercmp.
- Panu -
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