| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:18:01 -0400 |
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:07:08PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > but as near as I can tell, RPM thinks of > these two items as separate packages rather than as separate > versions of the same package: > > openssh-2.9p2-12 > openssh-3.1p1-2 Fwiw, NetBSD pkgsrc has had this (that is, a regexp structure to match and correctly compare version numbers in whatever silly format the vendor provides them) solved since the 1.3 days (NetBSD 1.6 should ship this summer) and, by all reports, Debian doesn't run into this kind of trouble (don't have a Debian box to try on), so if RPM really can't deal then it's demonstrably inferior and should either be fixed or kicked permanently to the curb. This can't be a hard thing to fix, if it's even still broken and especially considering the prior art available here. Not that that's work I'm the least bit interested in doing. Last I checked RedHat employed quite a few people to take care of precisely crap like this. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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