On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:32:41PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason I thought the rpm version/release comparison was done > by comparing the dotted components, but this does not seem to be > the case. For example: > > pkg-1.0-3 < pkg-1.0-3A > > but > > pkg-1.0-3.B > pkg-1.0-3A.B > > To me, this looks strange. What is the explanation for this? A change between alphabetic characters and numeric ones is considered as two components as if there was a dot in between. Thus you have for your first example 3 < 3.A and for the second one 3.B > 3.A.B. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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