[patch] fix to make _stringToVersion match rpm's parseEVR behavior

Christoph Thiel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi there,

while looking into one of our bugs, I found that createrepo's
_stringToVersion didn't match rpm's parseEVR. Please find the patch
attached.


Best,
Christoph

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createrepo-EVR.patch (text/x-patch, 453 B)
--- dumpMetadata.py
+++ dumpMetadata.py
@@ -321,11 +321,12 @@
     
     def _stringToVersion(self, strng):
         i = strng.find(':')
-        if i != -1:
+        if i != -1 and strng[:i].isdigit():
             epoch = strng[:i]
         else:
+            i = -1
             epoch = self.noepoch
-        j = strng.find('-')
+        j = strng.rfind('-')
         if j != -1:
             if strng[i + 1:j] == '':
                 version = None
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