On 2012-11-1 07:00 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2012, at 14:30, Gregor Jasny <[email protected]> wrote: > >> PS: How to specify beta version numbers? I assume 1.2.0-beta1 is newer >> that 1.2.0. In Debian I'd use 1.2.0~beta1. > > MacPorts doesn't have a rule about that. We generally just use the version > number as published by the upstream project. "~" seems like a strange > character to see in a version number so if upstream has not specified how the > version number is to be written, then I would suggest a dash (1.2.0-beta1) or > no separator (1.2.0beta1 or 1.2.0b1).
AIUI, the tilde affects version comparison in the dpkg world so that 1.2.0~beta1 is considered older than 1.2.0. Our vercmp proc doesn't support anything like that. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
