Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Xavier
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the old vercmp also maintains backwards compatibility, > i.e. packages that used to have options=('force') (e.g. samba) will > still have it, > and packages that used to not have options=('force') when using > *{rc,beta,

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Xavier
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Nagy Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Yes. And in Xavier's link there is a "Problems with Dependencies" >> paragraph. So it is required to minimize force/epoch in order to >> calculate 'foo>=1.3-1' dependencies correctly. Question: any foo >> package with forc

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Nagy Gabor
> > Yes. And in Xavier's link there is a "Problems with Dependencies" > paragraph. So it is required to minimize force/epoch in order to > calculate 'foo>=1.3-1' dependencies correctly. Question: any foo > package with force will satisfy this. Right? > Wrong. alpm_depcmp uses versioncmp instead o

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Nagy Gabor
> 2008/6/20 Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/6/20 Nagy Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> You may trust rpm guys, but don't forget that rpm based distros > >> usually use different versioning scheme, so '1.0b versus 1.0' is > >> not a real life example there: > >> alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.4.rc3.fc7.

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2008/6/20 Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/6/20 Nagy Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> You may trust rpm guys, but don't forget that rpm based distros usually >> use different versioning scheme, so '1.0b versus 1.0' is not a real >> life example there: >> alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.4.rc3.fc7.i386.rpm (Fedo

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Xavier
2008/6/20 Nagy Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You may trust rpm guys, but don't forget that rpm based distros usually > use different versioning scheme, so '1.0b versus 1.0' is not a real > life example there: > alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.4.rc3.fc7.i386.rpm (Fedora) > mplayer-1.0-0.20.pre7.0.rh9.rf.i386.rpm

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Nagy Gabor
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:09:37 -0500 -n "Dan McGee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Nagy Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> --- > >> doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt |3 ++- > >> doc/pacman.8.txt |8 +++- > >> 2 files

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Xavier
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But what is the expected behavior for a2ps with the 'c' in there? Does > 4.13 come before 4.13b? You are saying "I don't like this" without a > whole lot of justification and you even gave me a converse example as > far as I

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Nagy Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> --- >> doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt |3 ++- >> doc/pacman.8.txt |8 +++- >> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKG

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-20 Thread Nagy Gabor
> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt |3 ++- > doc/pacman.8.txt |8 +++- > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt > index b90d67a..0b1ce64 100644 > --- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt > +++

[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

2008-06-19 Thread Dan McGee
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt |3 ++- doc/pacman.8.txt |8 +++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt index b90d67a..0b1ce64 100644 --- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt +++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt