>>>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 14 September 2015 at 20:01, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Which of the following will match the package "cat/foo-1.02.3", >> and why: >> >> =cat/foo-1.020.3 >> =cat/foo-1.020.3* >> =cat/foo-01.02.3*
> Of those, I only expect the last to match, because leading 0's are > not typically significant. Well, version comparison is described in [1] and it says that =cat/foo-1.020.3 will match cat/foo-1.02.3. The problem is how to read the sentence "if the version specified has an asterisk immediately following it, a string prefix comparison is used instead" in the specification of the = operator [2]. Does that string prefix comparison apply to the whole version (then neither =cat/foo-1.020.3* nor =cat/foo-01.02.3* would match), or only to its last component (then both would match)? Portage behaviour is that =cat/foo-1.020.3* doesn't match but =cat/foo-01.02.3* does. Which seems to disagree with either reading of the spec. Could someone check what is Paludis's behaviour for the examples above? Also, does =cat/foo-1.2* match cat/foo-1.20 in Paludis? Ulrich [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/5/pms.html#x1-290003.3 [2] https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/5/pms.html#x1-840008.2.6.1
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