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#1 2004-12-18 01:19:19

pjmattal
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How does pacman compare version numbers?

I have a package whose version used to be 1.02b-4.

Now the new package is is version 1.1-2 in my repo.

Can someone explain to me why I get the following from pacman? How is it doing version counting?

:: itext-1.02b-4: local version is newer

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#2 2004-12-18 20:38:56

xerxes2
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Re: How does pacman compare version numbers?

pygtk 2.4.1-2

this means the "normal" behaviour of "major-minor-revision" and the digit after "-" is arch' package version, this means that this is the second time pygtk is packaged and put in arch' repos,


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#3 2004-12-18 23:35:33

apeiro
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Re: How does pacman compare version numbers?

You can use the vercmp utility to test pacman's version comparisons, if you want.  It returns an integer as a strcmp() call would.

[jvinet@mars misc]$ vercmp 1.02b 1.1
1

So pacman should see 1.1 as greater than 1.02b

[jvinet@mars misc]$ vercmp 1.12a 1.12
-1

Pacman considers trailing letters as pre-release versions, so 1.12a is less than 1.12.

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#4 2004-12-19 00:22:21

i3839
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Re: How does pacman compare version numbers?

Just to make it really obvious:

1.02b-4 is the same as 1.2b-4.

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#5 2004-12-19 00:36:00

dp
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Re: How does pacman compare version numbers?

i3839 wrote:

Just to make it really obvious:

1.02b-4 is the same as 1.2b-4.

yep: strcmp() says 0 ;-) ... but this is not common sense (a trailing 0 is never common sense)


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#6 2004-12-19 10:55:39

i3839
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Re: How does pacman compare version numbers?

dp wrote:

yep: strcmp() says 0 ;-) ... but this is not common sense (a trailing 0 is never common sense)

If that the case with your strcmp() function then that's a bug. It should only be the case with strverscmp().

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#7 2004-12-19 11:59:07

xerxes2
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Re: How does pacman compare version numbers?

isn't apeiro mixing the numbers in his explanation?

pjmattals package shouldn't been replaced with 1.1, should it!?


arch + gentoo + initng + python = enlisy

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#8 2004-12-21 15:55:57

phrakture
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Re: How does pacman compare version numbers?

the vercmp program uses the rpmvercmp routines (check the pacman source) which, though I haven't looked at the details, I would assume uses BCD style versioning.

so 1.02 translates:
atoi("1")=1, atoi("02") =2

just a guess.....

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#9 2004-12-21 17:49:04

i3839
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Re: How does pacman compare version numbers?

phrakture wrote:

so 1.02 translates:
atoi("1")=1, atoi("02") =2

I've said that two days ago already...

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