On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:07:51PM -0700, Antonello Cruz wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:28:21PM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > >>On Thu 26 Jun 2008 at 05:23PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: > >>>On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:12:53PM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > >>>>On Thu 26 Jun 2008 at 05:01PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: > >>>quite apart from that, if pkg version numbers be constrained to integer > >>>tuples then I think we'll be better off having pkg version numbers bear > >>>no resemblance to the packaged software's version numbers. I strongly > >>>recommend that; alternatively, make pkg version numbers strings (but I > >>>agree, implicit numeric ordering has desirable properties). > >>Feel free to make a concrete proposal by getting involved and working on > >>the code. As it stands now, you're describing a project other than this > >>one. > > > >I'm proposing no code changes, thus I have none to contribute. I'm > >proposing a change in use. > I am really curious how this can be achieved without any code changes... > Am I missing something?
Making pkg version numbers bear no resemblance to those of the packaged software is a manifest create-/update-time task. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
