Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
it wasn't in the REV string that we "hide" def? such as a.b.c,REV=def,x.y.z, in the case of openssl 0.9.8,REV=j -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
