On 26 Feb 2003 13:19:41 -0500
Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks_at_hp.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:54, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > Unfortunately your sdp package has fallen victim to the way ipkg
> > interprets version numbers: "1.0-kc1" compares as lower than
> > "1.0rc3-hh1". I have moved the old package out of the feed, so new
> > installations should pick up the right one, but anybody attempting
> > to upgrade will need to manually uninstall the old version.
> According to the ipkg sources, it is intrepreting the version numbers
> Debian style.
Hm..
> It seems to think that version numbers are
> epoch:ver-debver
> where epoch: is optional, where ver can be anything but trailing -foo
> is interpreted as debian version. If the package version had a -foo
> it grabs it with unexpected resutls.
Not nice :(
> Every time I run into this kind of problem I go back and look at it
> and it seems that the behavior is correct according to the spec. I
> think it's broken and would like to fix it, if no one has any problems
> with that.
Strangely I had a similar thought :)
So from my point, please go ahead! I am sure I will appreciate it. Just
one: Please document the new way it will work so that everyone will know
what to expect.
> -Jamey
CU
nils faerber
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