Rpm package major version parsing,

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I am triyng to get the major version of the package but some how “tuple or item” doesnt work.

the query is

(tuple string item 0 of concatenation “.” of substrings separated by “-” of it) of ((version of package “splunkforwarder” of rpm) as string)

6.6.2-4b804538c686.1

I just want get the “6” the first character from the version.

2

How about

preceding texts of firsts "." of (versions of packages "splunkforwarder" of rpm as string)

3

yay… thanks SLB. Appreciate your help.

I did this to pull that off but your is much simpler version.

(tuple string item 0 of concatenation ", " of substrings separated by “.” of it) of (concatenation “.” of substrings separated by “-” of it) of ((version of package “splunkforwarder” of rpm) as string)

4

is ths correct way of doing it?

if ( preceding texts of firsts “.” of (versions of packages “splunkforwarder” of rpm as string) < 6)
then update package
else false

5

I think you can do away with parsing the major version. If I use the BESAgent package as an example

Q: version of package "BESAgent" of rpm < "10"
A: True

Q: version of package "BESAgent" of rpm < "9"
A: False

To cater for systems that do not have the package, this approach is cleaner and should avoid having to use relevance checks in the action

Q: exists package "BESAgent" whose (version of it < "10") of rpm
A: True

Q: exists package "ItsNotHere" whose (version of it < "10") of rpm
A: False
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Thanks SLB. Appreciate your help.