Re: Summary[2]: dpkg and alpha/beta versioning
On 27 Jun 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
> For now (in libgc4), I'm using the oldversion-newversion-pre1-*
> scheme, but I'd rather do what you're proposing. How many places will
> we have to change sorting algorithms, though?
>
> dpkg
> dpkg-dev?
> apt
> dftp?
> dinstall?
>
> We should probably compile a list and go through it. Actually what we
> should *really* do is provide
You need to change dpkg's compare versions function and apt's compare
versions function, the other packages you list should be using dpkg
--compare-versions.
Jason
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