How to compare Debian package versions?

问题

I looked at python-apt and python-debian, and they don't seem to have functionality to compare package versions. Do I have to write my own, or is there something I can use?

Ideally, it would look something like:

>>> v1 = apt.version("1:1.3.10-0.3")
>>> v2 = apt.version("1.3.4-1")
>>> v1 > v2
True

回答1:

You could use apt_pkg.version_compare:

import apt_pkg
apt_pkg.init_system()

a = '1:1.3.10-0.3'
b = '1.3.4-1'
vc = apt_pkg.version_compare(a,b)
if vc > 0:
    print('version a > version b')
elif vc == 0:
    print('version a == version b')
elif vc < 0:
    print('version a < version b')        

yields

version a > version b

---

Thanks to Tshepang for noting in the comments that for newer versions: apt.VersionCompare is now apt_pkg.version_compare.

回答2:

Perhaps because the title doesn't mention Python (though the tags do), Google brought me here when asking the same question but hoping for a bash answer. That seems to be:

$ dpkg --compare-versions 11a lt 100a && echo true
true
$ dpkg --compare-versions 11a gt 100a && echo true
$ 

To install a version of rubygems that's at least as new as the version from lenny-backports in a way that gives no errors on lenny and squeeze installations:

sudo apt-get install rubygems &&
VERSION=`dpkg-query --show --showformat '${Version}' rubygems` &&
dpkg --compare-versions $VERSION lt 1.3.4-1~bpo50+1 &&
sudo apt-get install -t lenny-backports rubygems

Perhaps I should have asked how to do that in a separate question, in the hope of getting a less clunky answer.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4957514/how-to-compare-debian-package-versions