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Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] ptxd_ipkg_rev_smaller: fix compare with empty
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:42:46AM -0400, Jon Ringle wrote:
> After more testing, I found that there were other situations where the ve=
rsion
> comparison does not work well.
> =

> I ended up replacing the implementation of ptxd_ipkg_rev_smaller() with
> something much simpler, albeit dependent on dpkg that seems to work well:
> =

> ptxd_ipkg_rev_smaller() {
> =A0 =A0 dpkg --compare-versions $1 lt $2
> }

Hmm, that makes us dependend on dpkg (and thus on Debian). PTXdist tries
hard to run on any distribution, so I'm not happy with this.

rsc
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