On 02/06/10 10:43, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:12:45 +1000, Allan McRae<allan@archlinux.org> wrote:

...

vercmp and pacman include the same source file for comparisons so should

...

be fine.

There might have been a change a while back (3.2 I think) when there were heaps of discussions about version numbers and how they are sorted.

...

At the moment the scheme is the same as what rpm uses (except rpm has epochs to deal with cases like this).

Allan

Btw: is this a bug in vercmp?

[pierre@opteron ~]$ vercmp 1.0.0a 1.0.0.a 0 [pierre@opteron ~]$ vercmp 1.0.0 1.0.0.a -1 [pierre@opteron ~]$ vercmp 1.0.0 1.0.0a 1

If both versions are equal why aren't they if compared with others?

Certainly looks like a bug to me. Forwarding to pacman-dev Allan