Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:48:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: updating mksh, portmaster -a, pkg_version strangeness Message-ID: <Pine.BSM.4.64L.1203012244530.24179@herc.mirbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4F4FF978.7080308@FreeBSD.org> References: <1330106215702-5513504.post@n5.nabble.com> <4F4864A8.1030505@FreeBSD.org> <1330170849869-5514998.post@n5.nabble.com> <loom.20120301T181927-517@post.gmane.org> <4F4FF978.7080308@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton dixit: >The >way that we test version strings R40 is greater than R40c. That's to Ah okay. >accommodate the usual convention of having <number><letter> indicate a >beta version. Ouch. In MirPorts I used something like <number-1>.999 for this, and Debian has the tilde which sorts before everything, which, after some exposure to it, looks like the most sane concept. >What I suspect the OP saw was a situation something like R30 evaluated >to greater than R20b, then R40 evaluated to greater than R30*, but when >R40c came out he was stuck in the default version test logic which >caused his installed R40 to seem newer than R40c. I guess so. >nothing inherently wrong with minor version numbers. :) The meme of >major versions introduce new features and minor versions are bug fixes >is well understood, and very common. Doesn=E2=80=99t fit here though=E2=80=A6 development is never something maj= or any more. >Well hopefully miwi is paying attention to your excellent advice this >time around. :) OK ;-) bye, //mirabilos, who=E2=80=99d like to hack more mksh but is short on hacking t= ime --=20 > Hi, does anyone sell openbsd stickers by themselves and not packaged > with other products? No, the only way I've seen them sold is for $40 with a free OpenBSD CD. =09-- Haroon Khalid and Steve Shockley in gmane.os.openbsd.misc
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