Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (274 mails)

[keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Arjen and everyone else for your help.

Iv'e just checked the builds for apache and mod_php4 with
rpm -q <packagename> and rpm is returning the latest
downloaded versions.

So. before updating with YOU, I could
  do rpm -q <pn> to get the current version & build,
  go online with YOU, and upgrade a package,
  then do rpm -q <pn>, just to verify that the
package has been correctly installed.

Brill!

Regards - Keith Roberts


On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Arjen de Korte wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 21:16, keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > If Yast can display the build number, is there a reason for
> > not including the build number when doing 'httpd -v', or
> > 'mysqld -v' etc?
>
> Yes. YaST queries the RPM database, which stores the build number (to keep
> track of versions). The deamons themselves can't do that, since it is quite
> possible that they are not installed by RPM. If you want to know the build
> number, 'rpm -q <packagename>' will help. See 'man rpm'.
>
> Best regards,
> Arjen
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