Re: How to obtain patch level from Linux machine?
From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 06/17/05
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:10:15 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>:
> "Ching" <kenshin78@mail.com>,
> In a message on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:53:11 -0400, wrote :
> "> Hi all,
> "> I'm currently writing codes to detect if the linux platform has the
> "> correct patch level. For example,
> Why? What is the reason you are doing this? Also 'correct patch level'
> is subjective and not always meaningful.
> If this is for a software install, all you really need to do is to
> check version numbers of installed software you package depends on.
Yep, we could give some more helpful answers if the OP would tell
us what he's going to do.
> Very often, people DON'T upgrade to a distro's "patch level", but
> instead incrementally update individual packages (via up2date or autorpm
> or yum or manually or whatever). This may or may not be the
> *equivalent* to a given patch level or might be between patch levels or
> something else.
Full ack, answers to your questions are probably in the OP's
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