On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de> wrote:

> 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<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.
>
>
What do you think about the bash implementation found here:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/dkms-devel/2004-July/000142.html

Jon