Re: [Pkgutil-users] patch to support non-standard VERSION entries

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:56 PM,  <ma...@pr...> wrote:
> Understood we might not catch 100% of cases, but if we can catch 98% of cases, the outlying 2% can be treated as exceptions.  1.0 vs. 1.0b2 would actually still work given the patch I presented you, because the b would be stripped leaving 1.0 vs. 1.02.  What wouldn't have worked was 1.0 vs. 1.0b.  But I have yet to find an example like this from one of our vendors (all the examples I can find will work with the patch I sent you).

Just a quick reply to this part, another will follow when I have more time.

I chose that example intentionally since an official 1.0 should never
be replaced with a beta for the same version, that's a downgrade. I
meant 1.0 beta 2 with my 1.0b2. Maybe you read it as something else,
kind of proves my point... ;-)

I just see it as an endless stream of patches to plug new variations
that crop up but as long as it's isolated from the CSW way of doing
the compare I'm still not opposed to it and I will test your patch as
soon as possible.

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/peter