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.
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