[Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Koen van der Drift
Hi, The graph-pm package which I maintain is currently at version graph-pm-0.20105. A new upstream version has been released, graph-pm-0.55. If I type fink info graph-pm, it will still show the info for the older version (the newer version is in my local tree). I suspect this is because

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jan 23, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, The graph-pm package which I maintain is currently at version graph-pm-0.20105. A new upstream version has been released, graph-pm-0.55. If I type fink info graph-pm, it will still show the info for the older version (the newer version

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2005-01-23 Thread Remi Mommsen
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Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 23, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: The graph-pm package which I maintain is currently at version graph-pm-0.20105. A new upstream version has been released, graph-pm-0.55. If I type fink info graph-pm, it will still show the info for the older version (the newer version is

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Jan 23, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, The graph-pm package which I maintain is currently at version graph-pm-0.20105. A new upstream version has been released, graph-pm-0.55. If I type fink info graph-pm, it will

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Charles Lepple
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:57:49 -0800, Trevor Harmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 23, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: The graph-pm package which I maintain is currently at version graph-pm-0.20105. A new upstream version has been released, graph-pm-0.55. If I type fink info

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread TheSin
read the fink docs on use of epoch, if used right is will say Setting up graph-pm (1:0.55-1) ... --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 23-Jan-05, at 1:16 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:17 PM, TheSin wrote: read the fink docs on use of epoch, if used right is will say Setting up graph-pm (1:0.55-1) ... The packaging docs do not say much about epoch (they refer to the debian docs), so by comparing other packages, I added this line to the info file: Epoch:

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: do you mean the bug is in the version comparison, or in showing the info for the older version? Version comparison. dpkg --compare-versions 0.20105 gt 0.55 returns true, because version numbers are generally not compared as though they were true

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread TheSin
no, it is showing you that 1:0.55 is newer, fink shows the upgrade version not the installed version. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 23-Jan-05, at 2:41 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:17 PM, TheSin wrote: read the

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:46 PM, TheSin wrote: no, it is showing you that 1:0.55 is newer, fink shows the upgrade version not the installed version. Duh, I didn't rebuild the package after adding the Epoch field ;-) Now in the list it looks good: i graph-pm 1:0.55-1Graph

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: I suppose this is not a Fink bug but rather a clash in version conventions. Perhaps the graph-pm package should have been versioned as 0.2.1.5 and 0.5.5? I am using the version numbers as provided by the package, which seemed more logical to

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 23, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: I suppose this is not a Fink bug but rather a clash in version conventions. Perhaps the graph-pm package should have been versioned as 0.2.1.5 and 0.5.5? I am using the version numbers as