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

Nagy Gabor ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu
Fri Jun 20 09:03:22 EDT 2008


> 
> Yes. And in Xavier's link there is a "Problems with Dependencies"
> paragraph. So it is required to minimize force/epoch in order to
> calculate 'foo>=1.3-1' dependencies correctly. Question: any foo
> package with force will satisfy this. Right?
> 
Wrong. alpm_depcmp uses versioncmp instead of compate_version, so
doesn't deal with force.

Bye




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