Hrmm, That's interesting, I'll have to check it out. It does a very basic string comparison in SQL so it might be sqlite to blame. There's also a bunch of logic to handle newer releases of same version, etc so that could be to blame. I'll make some testcase packages and check it out in a couple weeks when I'm done with my current night contracting work. Thanks, Mark On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:33 +0200, Martin "Nightowl" Byttebier wrote: > on Thu 12-10-2006 10:53 Mark Duckworth wrote: > > >Martin, > > > >You might also want to check out "Sparemint Update Manager" a tool I am > >working on which connects to my new in development (perhaps > >eternally :-P) sparemint website, http://dev.sparemint.org. It needs to > >be download and built yourself with CVS but I released a while ago an > >alpha build that is an executable here: > > > >http://www.atari-source.org/?q=node/26 > > > >Look for sum-0.1a.tar.gz. I don't recall what features were supported > >in this build but you should be able to go to a command line and type > >"./sum.prg info" and it should compare your current package set to the > >server and recommend a series of updates. If you likes the updates you > >can do "./sum.prg upgrade" and it will download and upgrade all those > >packages automagically. The CVS version has GEM support if no > >commandline arguments are used, but it's unfinished. As I recall you > >can do things like ./sum.prg install sed and it will find the latest > >version of sed, download and install it. Usual package manager > >functionality. > > > > > Nice tool that is. > All the packages are up-to-date again now. > One small problem though. > > <quote> > The following packages are newer on the server > > Package: less-376-1.m68kmint.rpm > - Installed: less-381-1.m68kmint.rpm > </quote> > > Hmm, to me less-381 seems to be newer then less-376-1. > > HTH, > Martin >
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