Re: Manipulate Dev. release number properly

2011-02-23 Thread Robin Lee
We can use the v-string feature provided by Perl itself to normalize the version numbers of CPAN module rpms. We always convert the legacy decimal versions to normalized v-string, and use the v-string number as the rpm version, since v-string is friendly with rpm and also works within the Perl

Manipulate Dev. release number properly

2011-02-22 Thread Robin 'cheese' Lee
Hi! RPM doen't generate proper version numbers for Dev. releases of modules. For example, perl(CPAN) of f14 is actually 1.94_56 which just means 1.9456. But the version generated by RPM is 1.94, much smaller than the actual version. So I hope RPM can manipulate the underscores in version numbers