On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:57:54PM +0200, Roman Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > I am playing with RPM dependency resolution and I came across this in the > fc32 repos: > > # dnf -y deplist gnutls | grep libtasn1 > Last metadata expiration check: 2:04:09 ago on Wed 14 Oct 2020 09:47:12 > CEST. > dependency: libtasn1 >= 4.3 > provider: libtasn1-4.16.0-1.fc32.i686 > provider: libtasn1-4.16.0-1.fc32.x86_64 > > Could someone explain to me why version 4.16.0 satisfies 4.3? Does RPM > implicitly add `0.` to the comparison and it effectively compares `4.16.0` > with `0.4.3`? IIRC, it will compare each component of the version in turn and stop evaluation as soon as it gets an answer. So effectively it has compared 4.16 <=> 4.3, the trailing '.0' in 4.16.0 never needed evaluating. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
