Incorrect version comparison

KIMURA Yasuhiro yasu at utahime.org
Thu Apr 5 00:38:23 UTC 2007


From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: Incorrect version comparison
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:34:43 -0400

> > My daily cronscript reported this morning that there was a new  
> > version of ruby+pthreads:
> > ruby+pthreads-1.8.5.12,1            <   needs updating (index has  
> > 1.8.6,1)
> > 
> > However, when I was about to upgrade it, it didn't appear in the list  
> > of outdated ports. Instead I saw this output from portversion:
> > ruby+pthreads-1.8.5.12,1    >  succeeds port (port has 1.8.6)
> > 
> > It appears that (1.8.6,1) has been replaced by (1.8.6) during the day  
> > and this has inaccurately taged my (1.8.5)-installation as newer than  
> > the one in ports. What might be the cause of this?
> 
> Someone mistakenly dropped the portepoch from the port?

I sent PR of this problem (ports/111209) but idea of fixing seems
wrong (or does not work as is expected).

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KIMURA Yasuhiro


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