Re: [PATCH] Make unversioned satisfy everything in rangeCompare() also with flag=0

Ville Skyttä <[email protected]> writes:

> Hmm, I don't understand, could you elaborate/rephrase?
>
> "foo >=" without a version doesn't make sense to me, for example rpmbuild 
> doesn't let "Requires: foo >=" pass.  Is it actually possible to have such 
> relations that have name, the = >= and friends bits, but no version in 
> packages?

 If it's not possible to do, then surely having bad output for those
impossible cases isn't a problem?:) In reality there is more than just
the current version of rpmbuild.

> In the commit message where the patch was reverted, it says "This isn't right 
> ... Eg. =>, (None, None, None) VS. < (1, 2, 3) is false.".  Isn't 
> formatRequire() just for formatting stuff for humans to read, what does it 
> have to do with actual version comparisons?

 Yes, it's just for output ... but if a package refuses to install and
the output says "dependency not found 'foo'", and we look and
something is providing 'foo < 1' and we are requiring 'foo' that will
be very confusing ... whereas if the output says "dependency not found
'foo >='" we'll know that something is weird (and why the dep. failed).

-- 
James Antill -- [email protected]