Re: apt-rpm and vesion precedence

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Yannick Patois wrote:
>
>>> But when I try to upgrade:
>>> # apt-get upgrade
>>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>> The following packages will be upgraded
>>>   apt-sourceslist (303-8.ires1 => 30X-10.cern)
>>> 
>>> Why is the 30X-10.cern selected first?
>
>> Version comparisons involving strings are depend to some extent on the used 
>> rpm versions, but yes I think 1:30X-10.ires should be considered as newer 
>> than 1:30X-10.cern by rpm 4.2.x
>
> I think rpm treats stings (kinda) like #'s.  Since ires1 is *longer* than 
> .cern, ires1 is treated as being larger, for the same reason as 10000 is 
> larger/newer than 9000, even though the first "digit" is smaller.

Yes, ires1 would be larger, but the question as I understood it was why 
1:30X-cern is selected over 1:30X-ires (not ires1). AFAICT getting that 
behavior requires pinning to be active.

 	- Panu -