On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Michael Olbrich
<m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> so I accidentally pushed it before I could really review it...
> I had some time today and I think it's at least better than before.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:59:41PM +0000, Benoît BURNICHON wrote:
> > Now, ptxd_ipkg_rev_smaller does not enforce a revision to be 1.2.3-4 but
> > allows everything debian like.
>
> Well, not everything debian like, '~' is not handled correctly, right?
> Maybe something like this:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --- libptxdist.sh       2011-12-08 16:11:21.143970557 +0100
> +++ libptxdist.sh       2011-12-08 16:15:00.300421956 +0100
> @@ -741,13 +741,14 @@
>  #
>  ptxd_ipkg_rev_decimal_convert() {
>        local ver=$*
> -       while echo $ver | grep -q '[^0-9.]'
> +       while echo $ver | grep -q '[^0-9.~]'
>        do
> -               local char=`echo -n $ver | sed 's/.*\([^0-9.]\).*/\1/'`
> +               local char=`echo -n $ver | sed 's/.*\([^0-9.~]\).*/\1/'`
>                 local char_dec=`echo -n $char | od -b | head -n 1 | awk
> '{print $2}'`
>                 ver=`echo $ver | sed "s/$char/.$char_dec/g"`
>         done
>
> +       ver=`echo $ver | sed -r "s/\.?~/.-1/g"`
>         ver=`echo $ver | sed 's/\.\./.0/g'`
>
>         echo "$ver"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So I've been thinking about this whole version issue. The next step would
> be all versions with '-'. Maybe we should always add '-1' as packages
> revision. That would solve the problem for most of the packages is the
> list, you posted some time ago.
> What remains are 'broken' versions. For those few we could do, e.g.:
>
> MYSQL_VERSION           := 5.1.14-beta
> MYSQL_XPKG_VERSION      := 5.1.14~beta
>
> Sounds like a good idea.
Seems like the pkg_XPKG_VERSION could be autogenerated based on the
pkg_VERSION so you wouldn't have to update all the package files. If there
is no '-' character in the version then pkg_XPKG_VERSION would be equal to
pkg_VERSION

Jon