Re: Need assistance in determining if an rpm is installed

[Rune Mossige]

On (15/01/02 10:58), Adrian Phillips wrote:
> To: Rune Mossige <runemo@stavanger.geco-prakla.slb.com>
> Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Need assistance in determining if an rpm is installed
> From: Adrian Phillips <a.phillips@dnmi.no>
> Date: 15 Jan 2002 10:58:13 +0100
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> >>>>> "Rune" == Rune Mossige <runemo@stavanger.Geco-Prakla.slb.com> writes:
>     Rune> I do not know for sure...I thought this was allowed? If not,
>     Rune> how do I then get different tests to run on different OS'es?
> 
> It isn't allowed in 1.6 at least.
> 
>     Rune> Do You have a suggestion of how to do this task in a
>     Rune> different way?
> 
> /usr/bin/test -x /bin/rpm && rpm -q ....

Thanks for the tip. I will give this a try.

> 
> should work nicely and will handle other linux variants than rpm as
> well,
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Adrian Phillips
> 
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