Re: cleaning after apt-mirror
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote:
> but the problem is
>
> 2) Have a version number less than the version in the Packages file.
>
> look at these packages:
>
> main/m/mutter/gir1.2-mutter-3.0_3.12.2-2_i386.deb
> main/m/mutter/gir1.2-mutter-3.0_3.12.2-2+b1_i386.deb
>
> the sort gives gir1.2-mutter-3.0_3.12.2-2_i386.deb more recent,
> but in fact
> gir1.2-mutter-3.0_3.12.2-2+b1_i386.deb is more recent
That's because sort sorts lexically, not by version numbers.
See
dpkg --compare-versions '3.12.2-2' '<' '3.12.2-2+b1' && \
echo "Yes, -2+b1 is greater than -2."
for example.
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