[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

[Xavier]

2008/6/20 Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>:
>
> You may trust rpm guys, but don't forget that rpm based distros usually
> use different versioning scheme, so '1.0b versus 1.0' is not a real
> life example there:
> alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.4.rc3.fc7.i386.rpm (Fedora)
> mplayer-1.0-0.20.pre7.0.rh9.rf.i386.rpm (Fedora)
>

Yeah, I was also thinking about that.
But what is strange is that in the rpm epoch link I just gave, they
give an example that matches our situation.