Re: [Fink-devel] package ordering problem

2006-02-12 Thread William Scott
> While this works, it does "contaminate" the version number. Another > approach is to encode the "pre" in the revision: 0.1.0-0.pre1.1 or > some such. Increment the last ".1" for a new revision. This way you > can keep the version "pure" while still showing the "pre" status and > being able to up

Re: [Fink-devel] package ordering problem

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Feb 12, 2006, at 7:01 PM, William Scott wrote: That's great. It works, and is so simple it hurts. Thanks! On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Charles Lepple wrote: On 2/12/06, William Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dpkg --compare-versions 0.1.0-pre-1 gt 0.1.0 && echo "true" true How about 0.1.0

Re: [Fink-devel] mac-growl-pm586: fix it or I'll kill it

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:36 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:28 PM, TheSin wrote: hmm that is odd if it's the case, can other confirm this? I only have one Mac and it is building after turning off Growl in the pref pane as I reported earlier. I tried turning Growl on and

Re: [Fink-devel] package ordering problem

2006-02-12 Thread William Scott
That's great. It works, and is so simple it hurts. Thanks! On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Charles Lepple wrote: > On 2/12/06, William Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dpkg --compare-versions 0.1.0-pre-1 gt 0.1.0 && echo "true" > > > > true > > How about 0.1.0.0-1 ? --

Re: [Fink-devel] package ordering problem

2006-02-12 Thread Charles Lepple
On 2/12/06, William Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg --compare-versions 0.1.0-pre-1 gt 0.1.0 && echo "true" > > true How about 0.1.0.0-1 ? (The other common alternative is to use an epoch, but that's pretty ugly, and you can't ever stop using them once you start. At least this way you can r

[Fink-devel] package ordering problem

2006-02-12 Thread William Scott
Dear Colleagues: I now realize I should have figured out the answer to this question earlier, but I did not. I have a package (coot) whose most recent version is a pre-release. As it fixes a lot of bugs, and I am in almost daily contact with the author, we decided it was in good shape fo

Re: [Fink-devel] fink validate error in 10.4

2006-02-12 Thread Martin Costabel
Koen van der Drift wrote: On Feb 12, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Validating .deb file ./pymol-py24_0.98-1006_darwin-powerpc.deb... Error: File in a language-versioned package is neither versioned nor in a versioned directory. Offending file: /sw/bin/pymol I get the same

Re: [Fink-devel] fink validate error in 10.4

2006-02-12 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Feb 12, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Validating .deb file ./pymol-py24_0.98-1006_darwin-powerpc.deb... Error: File in a language-versioned package is neither versioned nor in a versioned directory. Offending file: /sw/bin/pymol I get the same warning in 10.4-transition

Re: [Fink-devel] fink validate error in 10.4

2006-02-12 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 12, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Does anyone understand the following error from fink cvs with the 10.4 branch? I find that pymol-py24 appears to build and run fine. Fink validate on pymol-py.info reports no errors. However when I fink validate the deb that is created (p

[Fink-devel] fink validate error in 10.4

2006-02-12 Thread Jack Howarth
Does anyone understand the following error from fink cvs with the 10.4 branch? I find that pymol-py24 appears to build and run fine. Fink validate on pymol-py.info reports no errors. However when I fink validate the deb that is created (pymol-py24_0.98-1006_darwin-powerpc.deb) I get a strange er