On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org> wrote:

> ptxd_ipkg_rev_smaller will return the wrong value if the version number
> does not include a $micro component.
>

For example:
>        pkgd_ipkg_rev_smaller foo_1.0-2_armel.ipk foo_1.0-1_armel.ipk
> will incorrectly return 0
>
>
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
}