Hello, Well you always can do this ugly trick: Set version of openssl to 0.9.8.7. And in summary write that the last number
(7 was chosen, because 'g' is 7th letter in alphabet) means 'g' version. This is the `solution` which I use for these things, but doesn't mean that I'm happy with it.;-) Petr 2007/11/14, Lukas Rovensky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all, > > just to support Venky's question -- for example, Samba has also > non-numeric version numbers, like, 3.0.21b, etc. > > Lukas > > Venky wrote: > > I was trying to build a test package of OpenSSL and hit an issues > > with the version numbering scheme currently being used. OpenSSL is > > right now at version 0.9.8g, which is not a valid version number > > under the IPS versioning scheme. > > > > Went through the list archives and found some discussions about > > this, but did not see any conclusions apart from that of continuing > > to support only numeric version strings for now. > > > > Are there any plans of enhancing this? > > > > Gentoo has a reasonably comprehensive version numbering scheme which > > seems to be serving them well: > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap3 > > > > That could be one option. > > > > Venky. > > _______________________________________________ > > pkg-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss >
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