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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:15:08 -0400
From:      The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@rtp1.SlowBlink.Com>
Cc:        freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: libh/lib/sysinstall Feature.cc
Message-ID:  <20020926131508.GB43108@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <200209261105.g8QB5jYs048922@rtp1.SlowBlink.Com>
References:  <200209261105.g8QB5jYs048922@rtp1.SlowBlink.Com>

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Aaarrghh... I struggled a lot with this class to make feature
comparison deterministic. I'm not sure this is the good path to
take.

I suggest you back this out. Some packages *do* use letters in their
packages, but I don't think we should include them, because they can't
essentially be used in comparisons.=20

I mean, this all comes back to:

1.a.4c.3 ?=3D 1.2.3c

and such. By not allowing strings in version, you make a stricter
version format that is more foolproof.

Can you prove that this version format is deterministic?

Also please see the numerous mails I sent on the least WRT that, and
that I had no answer for.

Thanks

A.

On Thu Sep 26, 2002 at 07:05:45AM -0400, Alexander Langer wrote:
> alex        2002/09/26 07:05:45 EDT
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     lib/sysinstall       Feature.cc=20
>   Log:
>   Allow feature versions of the type
>   	[0-9][0-9A-Za-z]*([._][0-9A-Za-z]+)*
>  =20
>   - at least one digit at the beginning
>   - then digits or letters are allowed (some packages use them
>     for versioning *sigh*)
>   - dots or underscores are allowed, but not at the end
>     of the version string
>  =20
>   Note that we probably want to check compare serials of
>   packages to find out if a package is newer/older/equal.
>  =20
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.24      +15 -6     libh/lib/sysinstall/Feature.cc
>=20
>=20
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>=20


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=46rom the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of
Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings!

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