Re: Bug#674022: dpkg: error: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version> <relation> <version>
On Di, 22 Mai 2012, Daniele Tricoli wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2012 19:50:58 Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> > hille@sid:~ $ echo $old_version
> >
> > hille@sid:~ $ dpkg --compare-versions $old_version le 2011.20120322-1
> > dpkg: error: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version>
> > <relation> <version>
>
> I always used dpkg --compare-versions with strings:
> $ dpkg --compare-versions "$old_version" le "2011.20120322-1" && echo yes
> yes
>
> Maybe is this the problem?
Quite probably ... I was reading the explanation in the man page
the same way as Hilmar, but obiously you seem to be right.
I changed the code and it will be in the next upload.
Best wishes
Norbert
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