Miguel Griffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 04:14 p.m. 11/07/01 +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: >>I'm currently writing a small program in C that is supposed to >>show me which packages I have from woody and which ones from >>sid (my system is actually a mix of both of them). >>Now, a problem I am likely to encounter soon are the version >>numbers. Do the follow some kind of scheme? >> >>For instance, package ssh >>ssh 1:1.2.3-9.3 >> >>If I had the version string saved somewhere, and an other >>one like 1:1.2.3-9.4, how can I compare them, is there a >>function that can do this? > >mmm... wouldn't just strcmp work?
No: see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-versions.html. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
