On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 :/
Yes; it seems the right fix is in opkg. Using RCONFLICTS with << also fails to me as said yestarday on IRC. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
