On 12 Jan 2007 10:23:41 -0800, Paul Boddie <pa**@boddie.org.ukwrote:
Chris Mellon wrote:
I'm trying to think of a good reason to extract the version from the
filename instead of using RPM to get the real version from the
metadata and I can't come up with one.
The inquirer doesn't have any RPM handling tools installed/available or
is dealing with a lot of versioned filenames which might be a selection
of different, arbitrary formats.
Try harder! ;-)
Paul
Well, the answer to the first is "get some", so that's not a good
reason. And the second would mean that they asked a question on c.l.p
without giving all the background information on the task they were
doing, and we know that never happens.