Re: [Rpm-maint] [RFC/PATCH] comparisons without release

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:23:40PM +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: > Having said that, the current behaviour seems to be quite broken. > Please explain the following: > > Provides: foo > 1.2-1 > Requires: foo = 1.2 no match > > Provides: foo >= 1.2-1 > Requires: foo = 1.2

Re: [Rpm-maint] [RFC/PATCH] comparisons without release

2010-11-29 Thread James Antill
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 18:11 +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:23:40PM +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: > > Having said that, the current behaviour seems to be quite broken. > > Please explain the following: > > > > Provides: foo > 1.2-1 > > Requires: foo = 1.2

Re: [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.9.0 alpha available

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:44:53AM +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: > - tilde support in version comparison > - triggers on provides instead of package names > - weak dependencies (basically just parsing them and storing them > in the rpm header) > - defining some tag where yum/zypp/smart can stor

Re: [Rpm-maint] [RFC/PATCH] comparisons without release

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:10:25PM -0500, James Antill wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by explain ... I assume you know why it's > doing what it's doing, so I guess you are saying "explain why we would > want it to do that"? > > To which I'd say, why would we want it to match on: > > Provid

Re: [Rpm-maint] [RFC/PATCH] comparisons without release

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:26:49PM +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:10:25PM -0500, James Antill wrote: > > ...before rpm even sees it. Does that still change? > > Uh, you're confusing me. "Provides: foo > 1.2, Requires foo = 1.2" > does not match, both with and without

Re: [Rpm-maint] [RFC/PATCH] comparisons without release

2010-11-29 Thread James Antill
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 19:26 +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:10:25PM -0500, James Antill wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by explain ... I assume you know why it's > > doing what it's doing, so I guess you are saying "explain why we would > > want it to do that"? >