On Jan 24, 2008, at 17:00, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
I currently have gimp-app gimp-app @2.4.0-rc1_0 installed.
If I do a sync and then port info gimp-app it shows gimp-app
2.4.0. But if I do port outdated, this port does not show up as
outdated. I would think that 2.4.0-rc1_0 is older then 2.4.0. But
port seems to think that it is more current. Is it just doing a
string compare to find the which one is newer?
Am I correct about which one is in fact newer?
You're right that 2.4.0 is newer than 2.4.0-rc1. Unfortunately, the
version comparison logic in MacPorts doesn't know this. It's not a
simple string comparison -- it's the rpm-vercomp function -- but that
function still doesn't know about release candidate version numbering
(as far as I know).
You'll have to force the upgrade:
$ sudo port -ncuf upgrade gimp-app
I'm not sure why the port was ever updated to a release-candidate
version; generally, that should not be done, since generally ports
should only contain released versions, not release candidates, beta,
alpha or other pre-release versions. (The exception to this are ports
named *-devel; these are by definition supposed to contain release
candidates, betas, alphas, or otherwise development versions. But
we're talking about gimp-app, not gimp-app-devel (which doesn't exist
anyway).)
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