On Dec 22, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
What is the DISTURL then ? Home page of "distro", or some ID-like
thing ?
No idea, ask Jeff. ;)
RPMTAG_DISTURL is a never used implementation because the requestor
(and the organizations the requestor particpated in, rpmfind.org and
Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
Well, for Mandriva 'Distribution:' would still be 'Mandriva
Linux' while 'DistTag':
would be 'mdv'.
And elsewhere, they have Distribution = Unknown and Vendor =
Fedora Project
Oh, really? I thought they had more similar to us, ie. we have
'Vendor: Mandriva' & 'Dis
2008/12/22 Anders F Björklund
> Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
>
> So this "DISTEPOCH" would also work for "OSVERSION" on other systems ?
>>>
>>> Like "darwin8" or "10.5osx" or "freebsd-7.0" or whatever it might be ?
>>>
>> Yes, that's kinda the idea, except for DISTEPOCH would only contain the
>> ve
Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
So this "DISTEPOCH" would also work for "OSVERSION" on other
systems ?
Like "darwin8" or "10.5osx" or "freebsd-7.0" or whatever it might
be ?
Yes, that's kinda the idea, except for DISTEPOCH would only contain
the version,
where the DISTTAG would contain the shor
2008/12/22 Anders F Björklund
> Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
>
> So this "DISTEPOCH" would also work for "OSVERSION" on other systems ?
>>
>> Like "darwin8" or "10.5osx" or "freebsd-7.0" or whatever it might be ?
>> Yes, that's kinda the idea, except for DISTEPOCH would only contain the
>> version,
2008/12/22 Jason Corley
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen
> wrote:
> > So WDYT?
>
> This seems like yet another magic bit in RPM comparisons with which to
> confuse newbies and old hats alike... Think of how many times you've
> explained epoch to someone on IRC, now add yet a
Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
So this "DISTEPOCH" would also work for "OSVERSION" on other systems ?
Like "darwin8" or "10.5osx" or "freebsd-7.0" or whatever it might be ?
Yes, that's kinda the idea, except for DISTEPOCH would only contain
the version,
where the DISTTAG would contain the short os
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> So WDYT?
This seems like yet another magic bit in RPM comparisons with which to
confuse newbies and old hats alike... Think of how many times you've
explained epoch to someone on IRC, now add yet another factor to
comparison operators.
2008/12/22 Anders F Björklund
> Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
>
> I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like
>> DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc.
>> and commited it to CVS already.
>> Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distribution version can be
>> added.
>>
>> This will cha
2008/12/22 Per Øyvind Karlsen
> 2008/12/21 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
>
>> On Saturday 20 of December 2008, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
>> > I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like
>> > DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc.
>> > and commited it to CVS already.
>> > Here's my next step, a
Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like
DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc.
and commited it to CVS already.
Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distribution version can
be added.
This will change EVR to EVRD which will be represented as
%{E
2008/12/21 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
> On Saturday 20 of December 2008, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> > I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like
> > DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc.
> > and commited it to CVS already.
> > Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distribution version
2008/12/20 Jeff Johnson
> Quoting
>
> "Br'er Fox, please don't throw me in the briar patch!", sez Br'er Rabbit.
> [1]
> Adding another structural field to package identifiers everywhere
> just adds complexity for no important gain imho.
>
> The lossages with DISTTAG (and REPOTAG and no DISTEPOCH}
On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
Jeff, please feel free to adjust this stuff to better fit your needs.
For OpenPKG I actually just need the special case where a whole "V" is
matched by a single "*", i.e., "foo >= *-1.2.3". This currently is the
only functionality I really
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> [...]
> The OpenPKG patch attempts to be more general than
> the suffix wildcard example I gave, and so has
> some peculierness associated if embedded, not
> appended, within a V or R string.
>
> The following character, not the following character class
On Dec 21, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
On Dec 21, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Time to get out of the briar patch methinks.
Since we're on the topic of EVR diddle-up's anyways ...
There's a (fairly sensible imho) OpenPKG patch to treat '*'
as a wildcard suffix for V o
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>> Time to get out of the briar patch methinks.
>
> Since we're on the topic of EVR diddle-up's anyways ...
>
> There's a (fairly sensible imho) OpenPKG patch to treat '*'
> as a wildcard suffix for V or
On Dec 21, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Time to get out of the briar patch methinks.
Since we're on the topic of EVR diddle-up's anyways ...
There's a (fairly sensible imho) OpenPKG patch to treat '*'
as a wildcard suffix for V or R comparisons.
So
Requires: rpm = 4.4.2*
will
On Dec 21, 2008, at 2:24 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
On Saturday 20 of December 2008, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like
DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc.
and commited it to CVS already.
Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distributi
On Saturday 20 of December 2008, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like
> DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc.
> and commited it to CVS already.
> Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distribution version can be
> added.
>
> This will change EVR to
Quoting
"Br'er Fox, please don't throw me in the briar patch!", sez Br'er
Rabbit. [1]
Adding another structural field to package identifiers everywhere
just adds complexity for no important gain imho.
The lossages with DISTTAG (and REPOTAG and no DISTEPOCH} are perhaps
easier
(for
I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like
DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc.
and commited it to CVS already.
Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distribution version can be
added.
This will change EVR to EVRD which will be represented as
%{EPOCH}:%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}:%{DIST
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