Re: dpkg --compare-versions

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 06:28:36PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
> delete sharutils_1%3a4.2-10_i386.deb keep sharutils_4.2-9.deb

> The line for sharutils seems to indicate that the newer version will
> be deleted.  dpkg -s sharutils says I have version 1:4.2-10 installed, 
> so it would seem to have worked right atleast once...

looks like apt is saving the URL-encoded form of the filename.

%3a is character 0x3a, or ":".

i.e. "sharutils_1%3a4.2-10_i386.deb" is sharutils version 1:4.2-10


maybe you should convert it back by using sed in the pipeline:

e.g.
	v1= ... | sed -e 's/\%3a/:/g' | ....
	v2= ... | sed -e 's/\%3a/:/g' | ....

craig

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craig sanders