MailScanner installer

[Kai Schaetzl]

Julian Field wrote on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:24:17 +0100:

> The snag is that the TimeDate is a "bundle" and not a single module. So 
> there aren't any version numbers you can check, so it has to retry it. 
> And the RPM version check won't work because it is someone else's 
> version numbering system. If you can find a way of automatically 
> determining that "1.16-5.el5.noarch" is higher than "1.16-4.noarch" then 
> I would be all ears, unfortunately I can't find one. The version 
> checking code in RPM is too complex to reproduce in a simple fashion in 
> a shell script. You can't do a simple alphabetical check as "10" must be 
> greater than "9" which it isn't if you sort alphabetically.

Shouldn't this be helpful? (This could also be utilized right in the 
mailscanner*.rpm.)

rpm -q --provides perl-TimeDate
perl(Date::Format) = 2.22
perl(Date::Format::Generic)
perl(Date::Language) = 1.10
perl(Date::Language::Afar) = 0.99
perl(Date::Language::Amharic) = 1.00
perl(Date::Language::Austrian) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Brazilian) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Chinese_GB) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Czech) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Danish) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Dutch) = 1.02
perl(Date::Language::English) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Finnish) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::French) = 1.04
perl(Date::Language::Gedeo) = 0.99
perl(Date::Language::German) = 1.02
perl(Date::Language::Greek) = 1.00
perl(Date::Language::Italian) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Norwegian) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Oromo) = 0.99
perl(Date::Language::Sidama) = 0.99
perl(Date::Language::Somali) = 0.99
perl(Date::Language::Swedish) = 1.01
perl(Date::Language::Tigrinya) = 1.00
perl(Date::Language::TigrinyaEritrean) = 1.00
perl(Date::Language::TigrinyaEthiopian) = 1.00
perl(Date::Parse) = 2.27
perl(Time::Zone) = 2.22
perl-TimeDate = 1:1.16-5.el5

Kai

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