Re: upgrading from rh7.2 to 7.3 -- dependency problem

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 02:07:51AM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Well I would say a quick parse for ANY non numeric characters would be
> in order.  If there are any non numeric characters in part of the
> version numbers then it gets a lower priority than just numeric.
> whatever-X.Y.Z-something  If X Y or Z have non numeric characters treat
> it as a prerelease.  I havent seen any reliable rpm vendors stray for
> that logic really.  

I have... 1.0 < 1.0a < 1.0b ... for instance.

> Oh I think there is a bug in the new release when trying to parse
> dependancies with parentheses or colons.  For instances 
> 
> mozilla out of rawhide requires
> perl(File::Path)
> 
> but the new grab is choking on that requirment and telling me
> mozilla needs perl(File
> 
> Obviously grab is having problems parsing the string with the colon in
> it.

I will look at the source, but I don't think that I changed anything here... 

> this is new to the newestest version of grab...the last version upgraded
> mozilla rawhide just fine.

OK, I will check it out!

Time to get some sleep for Linux World tomorrow! Anyone else going to be
there?

Greg
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