53653 – Portage doesn't understand decimal number correctly in an ebuild name

Bug 53653 - Portage doesn't understand decimal number correctly in an ebuild name

Summary: Portage doesn't understand decimal number correctly in an ebuild name

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2004-06-11 08:45 UTC by Michael Cummings (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-06-11 08:50 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-11 08:45:25 UTC

The quickest and easiest way to demonstrate this is with dev-perl/Apache-Session. We have 1.54 and 1.6 in the tree - 1.6 is truly the higher number (grade school math), but with portage you get:

[ebuild     U ] dev-perl/Apache-Session-1.54 [1.6] 

This has horrible implications in the tree, at least in the dev-perl branch.

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-06-11 08:48:32 UTC

1.54 *is* later than 1.6.

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-11 08:50:25 UTC

i ran too fast to open this. probably only affects the perl tree where version numbers are actually mathematically named, not subversions