Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] rpmvercmp() compares as equal versions that are not the same (#925)

2023-11-15 Thread Michal Domonkos
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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] rpmvercmp() compares as equal versions that are not the same (#925)

2020-03-04 Thread Florian Festi
We really need something better here. But the version comparison is not something that can be changed easily. We might postpone this to the next major release (probably 6.0.0). Having some fleshed out ideas how the new version comparison should work will still help. May be we want to have a

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] rpmvercmp() compares as equal versions that are not the same (#925)

2019-11-05 Thread Panu Matilainen
Yup. Other variants of the generic issue include eg 1.0α == 1.0β which also totally defies common sense. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] rpmvercmp() compares as equal versions that are not the same (#925)

2019-11-04 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
There are cases when the `rpmvercmp()` function compares two different version strings as equal. For example, in some cases adding a plus `+` character at the end of the version denotes that this version is the base version plus some changes. This is the case of the Linux kernel build system