Hi Phil, Am 20.12.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Philip Brown: > FYI, a reminder about a "past" issue, that came to my attention again: > > In the past, I only allowed "pure numeric" versioning for packages. > The Spec was > > softwarename-##.##.##,REV=anythinghere. > > a year or so ago, people pushed to drop the pure numeric constraint. > No-one else wanted to keep the pure numeric restrictions. So we now > have alphas to the left of REV, where only #.#.# used to be. > > However, when and if we transition to integrating with "IPS", it > should be mentioned: > > **they only allow pure numerics for versioning** > > The archive thread at > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.pkg.general/24163 > somehow hasnt seem to have caught up with the latest, but here's a > quote from a later email from Danek Duvall, on the 17th Dec: > > "I think it gets harder when you don't have a tuple of integers. For > instance, OpenSSL uses letters in their normal versions -- 0.9.8j, for > instance, which we translated to 0.9.8.10. [....]"
Umh, this is pretty bad. I suggest using instead a.b.c_def,REV=x.y.z a version of z.y.x.a.b.c and hide def somewhere. Best regards -- Dago _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
