On 21/07/10 15:32, Nathan Wayde wrote:
This is prolly a stupid idea but I'll suggest it anyway. Have anyone thought of simply adding another field in the pkginfo, say altver which if present would override pkgver. I'm pretty sure it would walk right around all this nonsense until(if ever) upstream starts using better version schemes. It would also fix? the issue with version dependencies of -svn(et al.) packages where the actual version is e.g 2.1 but the version in the pkginfo is 2432.
There has been talk about adding an epoch variable similar to what rpm does. But this has not progressed beyond talk...
Allan
