Re: [PATCH] yet another package check

[Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> Why do you write non-portable shell scripts?
> 
> Some time ago, I made these portable:
> 
> check_brctl
> check_iproute
> check_libvncserver
> check_python
I don't know if this one has been rewritten since stable version, but
here is a patch I recently submited to the user list, to rely on python
instead of ugly grep:

diff -Naur xen-3.0.3_0-src/tools/check/check_python
xen-3.0.3_0-src.better-python-check/tools/check/check_python
--- xen-3.0.3_0-src/tools/check/check_python	2006-10-15
14:22:03.000000000 +0200
+++ xen-3.0.3_0-src.better-python-check/tools/check/check_python
2006-12-11 16:26:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@
     exit 1
 }

-python -V 2>&1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | grep -q '^2.[2345]' || error
+python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info[0] < 2 or
sys.version_info[1] < 2);' || error