On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:06:55AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:08:03 +1000, > Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: > > Version number comparison is checked with 'dpkg --compare-versions', and > > the format is checked automatically by various tools. I've never found > > it necessary to look at the details of either except when I'm poking at > > apt or dpkg's internals, or when I've needed to do something really weird. > You say I should read the source of dpkg when I need to do > something really weird about version number (cope with -pre and -beta, > rebuild with dbs and so on)? Digits, dots and hyphens do not > always work.
No, I'm saying you should read the Specs Document. (Advice on coping with -pre and -beta and such should be in the Best Practices doc anyway though -- generalising from how the version comparison stuff works to a good way of handling pre-versions is non-trivial. Well, without ~, it is, anyway.) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
