Thanks Alan. That did the trick.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Alan Barrett <a...@cequrux.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> [need to compare two version numbers: "1.18.29-1" and "1.22"]
>>
>> I can't do a pure mathematical comparison because the "-" is in the
>> version number. I tried splitting that into two and passing the
>> version as 1.18.29, but puppet complains about the ".".... you can't
>> pass a float to a definition?
>
> You can pass a string to a definition. 1.18.29 doesn't look like a float.
>
>> This is version 0.24.8.... what options do I have?
>
> You can use the versioncmp function. It didn't quite work in puppet
> 0.24.8, but if you copy lib/puppet/parser/functions/versioncmp.rb from
> puppet-0.25.0 then it should work. See issue #2110.
>
> I think you want somethng like this:
>
> if (versioncmp($version, "1.22") >= 0) {
> # do stuff
> }
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
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