Re: [Pkgutil-users] comparing multiple versions without revisions fails - patch attached for review

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

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:01 AM, KillBoy PowerHed
<kil...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I came across this issue yesterday when I found "ensure => 'latest'" had
> never worked in puppet with custom package repositories, it seems to be the
> 4th case in verscmp() that was the culprit. I've stolen versioncmp() from
> the Sort::Versions CPAN module and call that inside case 4 now which seems
> to be working.
>
> This patch seems a little hacky and could obviously do with some thorough
> testing and more eyes so if you have this issue please take a look at the
> attached, hopefully someone can come up with a cleaner solution.
>
> thanks

Since it's impossible to cover all variants of versions OpenCSW
intentionally choose to ignore the upstream version and only use the
REV-field which is purely numeric, this is documented here:
http://pkgutil.wikidot.com/get-install-and-configure#toc9.

I have always recommended people who create their own repos to follow
that standard and they will get it right every time. Example:
1.0,REV=2013.08.20 but any number of numeric fields are supported,
e.g. 1.0,REV=1234 or 1.0,REV=2013.08.20.17.16.


Regards,
Peter