[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [3012] Add ability to increase the version number of a given package

Wed Feb 22 19:59:07 CET 2012

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 06:13:12PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> On 22 February 2012 17:06,  <root at mageia.org> wrote:
+> > Revision 3012 Author ovitters Date 2012-02-22 17:06:51 +0100 (Wed, 22 Feb
+> > 2012)
+> >
+> > Log Message
+> >
+> > Add ability to increase the version number of a given package
+> >
+> > Command tries to be careful and does various checks (patches still apply,
+> > etc)
+> 
+> Too sad it doesn't support this:
+>   %define rel 3
+>   %define release %mkrel %rel
+> (which is hard anyway and should be rare though it does exist among
+> mga packages)
+
+I could support that or you can commit something to support this.
+However, I want this mga-gnome to be very reliable. No "hope for the
+best". IMO, paranoia is best... best to error out if anything might
+appear strange.
+
+> > +def version_cmp(a, b):
+[..]
+> Please do not reinvent the whell and do sg like this instead:
+> 
+> import rpm
+> 
+> def compare(t1, t2):
+>    # t1 and t2 are tuples of (version, release)
+>     v1, r1 = t1
+>     v2, r2 = t2
+>     return rpm.labelCompare(('1', v1, r1), ('1', v2, r2))
+
+Cool! I knew there had to be something like this, but couldn't be
+bothered to investigate. The version_cmp I just copy/pasted from some
+Python code I wrote for GNOME.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+