On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:02:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Martin Jansa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Mark Hatle <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> Just an FYI -- Martin Jansa found a problem with the implement of the
> >> package version comparison.
> >>
> >> In deb and ipk, they do not support '<' or '>', instead it's '<<' and '>>'.
> >> (Odd, historical reasons apparently).
> >>
> >> While RPM doesn't have any idea what '<<' or '>>' is.
> >>
> >> Talking with RP and others it seems like the best approach is to implement 
> >> a
> >> conversion, in the deb and ipk packaging classes, to convert '<' and '>' to
> >> the '<<' and '>>' equivalents.  As well as add a sanity check that nobody 
> >> is
> >> using '<<' or '>>'.
> >>
> >> I'm in the process of doing that now.
> >>
> >> --Mark
> >
> > There is still some problem in opkg, now when I'm testing << with opkg
> > which should work as LESS (and < as LESS_EQUAL), it still shows <= in
> > opkg status and behaves like <=. So there is probably some bug in opkg
> > still hidden :/
> 
> Yes; it seems the right fix is in opkg.
> 
> Using RCONFLICTS with << also fails to me as said yestarday on IRC.

Reported upstream with simple test case
http://code.google.com/p/opkg/issues/detail?id=94

will attach patch there + send here when I have it.

Cheers,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: [email protected]

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