added first draft for function is_version_less() to compare two versions

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/FUNCTIONS b/FUNCTIONS
index 00cab135ff..2b2bedccda 100755
--- a/FUNCTIONS
+++ b/FUNCTIONS
@@ -703,6 +703,13 @@ function default_build_make(){
 }
 
 #---
+## Compare if one version is less than another (uses sort from coreutils)
+#---
+function is_version_less() {
+  [ ! $(echo -e "$1\n$2" | sort --version-sort | head -1) = "$2" ]
+}
+
+#---
 ## Simple version check with force depends
 ## @params $1 - the spell to check the version of
 ## @params $2 - the simple version to check against