On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.ha...@windriver.com> wrote: > Just an FYI -- Martin Jansa found a problem with the implement of the > package version comparison. > > In deb and ipk, they do not support '<' or '>', instead it's '<<' and '>>'. > (Odd, historical reasons apparently). > > While RPM doesn't have any idea what '<<' or '>>' is. > > Talking with RP and others it seems like the best approach is to implement a > conversion, in the deb and ipk packaging classes, to convert '<' and '>' to > the '<<' and '>>' equivalents. As well as add a sanity check that nobody is > using '<<' or '>>'. > > I'm in the process of doing that now. > > --Mark
There is still some problem in opkg, now when I'm testing << with opkg which should work as LESS (and < as LESS_EQUAL), it still shows <= in opkg status and behaves like <=. So there is probably some bug in opkg still hidden :/ _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
