Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:25:45 -0700 From: bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah) To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indicating patch levels Message-ID: <200008211725.e7LHPj442017@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008192306130.93412-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008192306130.93412-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--==_Exmh_-1945847231P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > | I'd suggest we try: > > | > > | packagename-version[_revision][:epoch] to remain basically backwards > > | compatible, and gain the same playing parameters of possibly the > > | leading package management collection. > > This sounds fine to me..the epoch field would be rarely used, but it's > essential for those ports that require it. We'd have to teach things like > pkg_version about it or it wouldn't affect the numerical comparison, but > that's easy enough. No problem with pkg_version, we just need to figure out what's the syntax and what the fields mean. If we know that the version is always prefixed by a "-", and that revision and epoch are always prefixed by different separators (as in the example above), that makes things a little easier for pkg_version to parse. I was just rereading the code, and I found a few minor buglets that need to be fixed, but that's kind of independent. Bruce --==_Exmh_-1945847231P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: xO1FqBO6tGg5YHKdPdXsB+Z2M1wUeDY+ iQA/AwUBOaFmGdjKMXFboFLDEQKzbwCeIhWOqPTexQcla7DxWLczUfVOV9kAoKc2 L5kjTVYtNPn4eLGghWecojvJ =R+DD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1945847231P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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