Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:30:31 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: maho@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports with version numbers going backwards: lang/ifc Message-ID: <16E11247-CF9C-11D8-8006-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040706214455.GS57177@numachi.com>
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Brian Reichert wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:41:18PM -0400, chkversion wrote: >> ** The following ports have a version number that sorts before a >> previous one ** >> ... >> - *lang/ifc* <maho@FreeBSD.org>: ifc-8.0.046.p049.1 < ifc-8.0.046 > > How is this sort being done? ... Basically 3.b1 = 3beta1, so `number dot letter' sorts *before* number. A possible alternative for the case above would be ifc-8.0.046.0p049.1, which sorts after ifc-8.0.046. Try pkg_version -t 8.0.046 8.0.046.0p049.1 -Oliver
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