Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:49:17 -0700 From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: bmah@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_version output change? Message-ID: <200009120249.e8C2nH202383@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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--==_Exmh_-977391032P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi porters-- Mark Ovens proposed a small patch to pkg_version(1), which disambiguates the "I can't do a version number comparison" result for ports version number comparisons into three cases, which be roughly characterized as: ? What port?!? It's not in the index. * There's a bunch of versions of this thing. Help! ! Aaack. I have no idea what's going on. I think this is generally a good thing, his patch applies cleanly to -CURRENT, and generally things are cool. What I'm wondering is if there's any programs that depend, in some way, on the old behavior, which was to print a "?" result for any comparison whose output wasn't "<", "=", or ">". I already know about src/etc/ periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg, but it only cares about packages that need updating, for which pkg_version returns "<". (I want to avoid getting into a discussion of what the exact characters should be, just the gross behavior.) Bruce. --==_Exmh_-977391032P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: iLgPsuBZcX6W0NWa76EedRgQZYMyymzb iQA/AwUBOb2ZrdjKMXFboFLDEQJa1gCgu1hUU3poeZtSA28LRZiV16Wi3SMAoIGE TCS3PQ0Be3pAUdrO763nLWBG =Y5nX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-977391032P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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