Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:50:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/18030: [PATCH] pkg_version thinks 4.04 > 4.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004171549430.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <2000-04-17-17-55-43%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr>
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > On 17/04, Bill Fumerola wrote: > | On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:00:03AM -0700, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > | > | > a2ps 4.12 > a2ps 4.3, and your patch will break it. There is no way to make > | > this fully automated. > | > | Ignore leading zeros? > > You missed the point: this is the current situation (which works fine > with a2ps and not for the other software, as 4.04 is less recent than > 4.1, ignoring leading zeros (or doing a numerical comparaison, which > holds the same result) gets it wrong). Yet another reason for internal package version numbers. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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