Re: Package versioning and upgrades

[Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se>]

On Thu, 7 May 2015 11:55:11 +0200,
Turbo Fredriksson<turbo@bayour.com> wrote:

>On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>> So always use ~wheezy suffix when building for wheezy and use no
>> suffix when building for jessie
>
>This used to work, but doesn't seem to any more… I'm at a loss.
>
>	wheezy:		0.6.4-1.1-1-wheezy
>	wheezy-daily:	0.6.4-12-0c60cc-wheezy
>	jessie:		0.6.4-1.1-1
>	jessie-daily:	0.6.4-12-0c60cc
>
>Checking the 'wheezy' and 'jessie' packages:
>
>	$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-1.1-1-wheezy lt 0.6.4-1.1-1;
>	echo $? 1
>	$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-12-0c60cc-wheezy lt
>	0.6.4-12-0c60cc; echo $? 1
>
>So ISN'T true! What did I miss?

Use "&&" instead:

# dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-12-0c60cc-wheezy lt 0.6.4-12-0c60cc && echo true
# dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-12-0c60cc~wheezy lt 0.6.4-12-0c60cc && echo true 
true

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4510640/command-line-what-is-the-purpose-of

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