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

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

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Peter Bonivart <bon...@op...> wrote:
> 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.

Just remembered that there's more documentation here about this:
http://pkgutil.wikidot.com/bldcat#toc2.

/peter