Bug 865377

Summary: Invalid result of compare_nvr
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Martin Magr <mmagr>
Component: koboAssignee: Daniel Mach <dmach>
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Description Martin Magr 2012-10-11 09:59:10 UTC
Description of problem:

from kobo import rpmlib
nvr_old = rpmlib.parse_nvr('man-pages-pl-0.24-13.el7')
nvr_new = rpmlib.parse_nvr('man-pages-pl-0.3-2.el7')
result = rpmlib.compare_nvr(nvr_new, nvr_old)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kobo-rpmlib-0.3.6-1.fc17.noarch


How reproducible:
In [1]: from kobo import rpmlib
In [2]: nvr_old = rpmlib.parse_nvr('man-pages-pl-0.24-13.el7')
In [3]: nvr_new = rpmlib.parse_nvr('man-pages-pl-0.3-2.el7')
In [4]: result = rpmlib.compare_nvr(nvr_new, nvr_old)
In [5]: result
Out[5]: -1

Actual results:
'man-pages-pl-0.3-2.el7' resulting to be older than 'man-pages-pl-0.24-13.el7'

Expected results:
'man-pages-pl-0.3-2.el7' resulting to be newer (e.g. result=1) than 'man-pages-pl-0.24-13.el7'

Additional info:
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Comment 1 Martin Magr 2012-10-11 10:05:39 UTC
I just found out, that if you fit version length, then result is OK. SO maybe it could be fixed with this:

n [1]: from kobo import rpmlib

In [2]: nvr_new = rpmlib.parse_nvr('man-pages-pl-0.30-2.el7')
In [3]: nvr_old = rpmlib.parse_nvr('man-pages-pl-0.24-13.el7')
In [4]: result = rpmlib.compare_nvr(nvr_new, nvr_old)
In [5]: result
Out[5]: 1

Comment 2 Daniel Mach 2012-10-11 10:21:32 UTC
This is expected.
RPM splits versions by dots and underscores and compares them part by part.
If both parts are numeric, they are compared as numbers.

0.24 > 0.3 because 0 = 0 && 24 > 3

Comment 3 Peter Schiffer 2012-10-11 10:51:46 UTC
Yes, this is correct, however it is like this:

man-pages-pl-0:0.24-13.el7
and
man-pages-pl-1:0.3-2.el7

The problem is that comparison is ignoring the epoch number..