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Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] ptxd_ipkg_rev_smaller: fix compare with empty
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Am 19.10.2011 19:46, schrieb Robert Schwebel:
> 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 version
>> 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() {
>>      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.

Maybe Perl would be okay?

http://www.emdebian.org/trac/browser/current/target/dpkg/trunk/scripts/Dpkg/Version.pm?rev=6998

Seems to be quite official, and the Dpkg::ErrorHandling and 
Dpkg::Gettext could be easily removed.


Regards,
Bernhard

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