Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:38:57 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/pkg_install-devel Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <20040416173857.GA50670@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <4080151C.1070200@fillmore-labs.com> References: <200404160124.i3G1OlUd067575@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040416163635.GB49780@madman.celabo.org> <4080151C.1070200@fillmore-labs.com>
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:17:16PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 06:24:47PM -0700, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > > > >> Introduce '*' as the lowest possible version number, so that > >> >=2.* <3.* > >> matches all 2.X versions, even alpha. > > > >How is this different from ` >=2.a <3.a ' ? > > It matches 2.a.b, does not match 3.a.b2 *scratches head* I still don't see a difference. 2.a <= 2.a.b < 3.a 2.a <= 3.a < 3.a.b2 > and is more similar to >=2.X than >= 2.a is. How so? Maybe you mean to say that 2.a > 2.* ? I find that rather confusing. > Btw, at least for pkg_install-devel we have 2.pl0 < 2.a. How did that become broken? What does 2.pl0 even mean? Do you have an example? I'm certain that is against our naming conventions. I'm concerned because I have a function that converts a package version into a 128 bit integer, such that if the package version A is greater than package version B, then f(A) > f(B). If the versioning rules are being changed, I wanna know (and I'd also like to know why). Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org
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