Zachary DeAquila writes: > > can dpkg be modified to ignore non-numeric, non-punctuation in the version numbers/? > lyx, for instance, was originally lyx_pre-10.3_1.deb or somesuch > but is now lyx_10.6_2.deb or something like that. but p>10, so > going to the new version is 'downgrading'. bleh. > > --Z > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com > The way dpkg works (based on my limited experience) is that it ignores most of the version number. The version number is actually two parts: the program version and the package revision. Also, dpkg ignores the package files name, it looks at the package name inside the deb file. Both packages you mentioned have the package name lyx. Dpkg ignores the program version (pre-10.3), but instead looks at the package revision (1). That way, it doesn't have to know about all the different ways versions are expressed. -- Stephen Pitts pitts2@memphisonline.com Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 on an Intel Pentium 150 Send a message with "Send PGP Key" in the subject to get my PGP key. "I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer." -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
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