On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:18:44PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: >On Wed, Mar 09, 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Neither do I *for definite*, but I know that other tools that rely on >> kernel ABI have been thrown by the sort order of "trunk" vs "1", "2", >> etc. so I'm raising it early in case it matters. > > My first reaction was that it was basically the problem of the people > using this name in the first place, but then I figured that if > flash-kernel just did what grub does, nobody would complain. Turns out > grub seems to have special casing for trunk! > > it uses version_find_latest() below which calls version_test_gt(), > sounds like exactly what we need, and version_test_gt() starts by > transforming trunk versions to use ~.
Cool, I'm glad I prompted you to look. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
