On Wednesday 19 November 2008 22:54, Eugene T. Bordenkircher wrote: > Hello all, > > Below, you'll find a patch against the current SVN head to fix a couple of > bugs > in the version comparison code for dpkg. As a brief explanation: (1) the old > code did not handle epochs that were greater than a single digit, and (2) it > did not compare alpha() portions of the version string correctly, most > notably > portions that included ~'s and other punctuation. > > You'll notice that the solution is almost a mirror image of the official code > in dpkg. I looked at it and couldn't think of any better way than that to do > the comparison. I added the copyright information at the top to make it > official. > > So it correctly compares versions now and probably more importantly to some: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 688420 2168 9388 699976 aae48 busybox.orig/busybox > 688273 2168 9388 699829 aadb5 busybox.new/busybox > > Enjoy, and let me know if there is anything I missed or need to do a bit > differently.
Patch appears to be corrupted: # patch -p1 </tmp/dpkg_version_comparison.diff --dry-run patching file archival/dpkg.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 6. Hunk #2 FAILED at 32. Hunk #3 FAILED at 189. Hunk #4 FAILED at 237. Hunk #5 FAILED at 263. 5 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file archival/dpkg.c.rej Please resend as an attachment instead of cut-n-paste. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
