# Return a numeric version code based on a version string. The version
# code is useful for comparison two version strings to see which is newer.
version_code() {
- # split arguments like "1.8.6-wc3" into "1", "8", "6", "wc3"
- eval set -- $(tr "[:punct:]" " " <<< $*)
+ # split arguments like "1.8.6-wc3" into "1", "8", "6", "3"
+ eval set -- $(tr "[:punct:][a-z]" " " <<< $*)
- echo -n $(((${1:-0} << 16) | (${2:-0} << 8) | ${3:-0}))
+ echo -n $(((${1:-0}<<24) | (${2:-0}<<16) | (${3:-0}<<8) | (${4:-0})))
}
export LINUX_VERSION=$(uname -r | sed -e "s/\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\).*/\1/")