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.  

squid on redhat; with the annoying '2.4.STABLE6' and the like. :(

ncftp / > cd linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
ncftp ...en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS > ls squi*
squid-2.4.STABLE6-1.7.2.i386.rpm

tho the fact that the alpha string is ahead of the version # instead of
behind it could be used as a way around in this particular case.

Carl.
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