Hi Mark, > Currently, the package specification "linux-libre@4.1" selects version > 4.13. It should instead select version 4.1.
We consider everthing following the “@” a version string prefix. Since versions are arbitrary strings “4.1” is considered a valid prefix of “4.13”. If a user supplied the version string “4.1.” they would get the appropriate package. The current implementation sorts all matches in decreasing version order and picks the package with the highest version. This is implemented in (gnu packages) with “%find-packages”, “find-best-packages-by-name”, and “find-packages-by-name”. Should we try to make the code understand version strings better and compare substrings of the version string? We could fall back to using “string-prefix?” when the substring is not a number. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
