On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:37:14AM +1000, Kai Hendry wrote: > Just wondering about packaging snapshots of a package. > > Ok, snapshots could be known as "backups". Here I am talking about > pulling from say a Subversion repository and building a package. > > For now I want to do this just to keep tabs on what upstream has > planned. Not so much for unstable... > > > > I remember being a little bewildered by the version string in Debian. Is > this OK? > > frodo$ apt-cache show irssi-snapshot | grep Version: > Version: 0.8.6+cvs.20031114-1 > > And how does that compare to: > > frodo$ apt-cache show gcc-snapshot | grep Version: > Version: 20051008-1 > > > Is this documented somewhere? You can use
dpkg --compare-versions 1 '>' 2; echo $? Of course, 20051008 > 0.8.6... but I don't think thats what you mean :) -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
