Re: RPM version numbering
Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Nov 2002 06:48:03 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.up2date.current.devel |
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:29:51AM +0100, Jacco Ligthart wrote: > Hi list, > > I just found a minor rpm version numbering problem in the RedHat 7.1 > powertools set of RPM's. > > In the power tools itselve is a RPM named: > perl-Chart-0.99c_pre3-10.i386.rpm > While in the updates there is a: > perl-Chart-0.99c.pre3-1.i386.rpm > > The second RPM is newer, but current thinks that the first is the one that > should be distributed. > It is not really a big deal for me, but I just wanted to let you know. This is a limitation of rpm's versioning, punctuation is used as a separator, never compared directly. Only reasonable fix ATM is to Choose versions that preserve rpm'c concept of "newer". 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ [email protected] ([email protected]) Chapel Hill, NC