15 Sep
2002
15 Sep
'02
07:04
On Sunday 15 September 2002 08.59, Graham Murray wrote:
Michael Hasenstein
writes: Will this solve the "anomaly" whereby current package managers (eg kpackage) think that release candidates are later versions than the actual release? eg they think that "koffice-1.2rc1-20.rpm" is newer than "koffice-1.2-3.i386.rpm".
I think the problem lies with the people who create the rpms. rpm doesn't have advanced AI. In the above case, "2rc1" comes after "2" in any sorting algorithm I can think of off the top of my head. How about naming 1.2rc1 1.1.99 or something?! //Anders