Bug 136588

Summary:	mplayer-1.0.20060415 ebuild considered newer than mplayer-1.0_pre8 by portage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roman Polach <rpolach>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	neil
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Roman Polach 2006-06-12 15:28:16 UTC

mplayer-1.0.20060415 ebuild is considered newer than mplayer-1.0_pre8 by portage,
but it is older and effectively blocks from upgrade to mplayer-1.0_pre8.

mplayer versioning should be somehow changed because there is no information
about what is newer: 1.0.YYYMMDD or 1.0_preX builds. In fact:

1.0_pre8 > 1.0.20060415 > ... > 1.0_pre7-r1

...and there would probably come some new 1.0.YYYYMMDD versions in future
which should be considered newer than 1.0_pre8.

I suggest something like renaming 1.0.20060415 to 1.0_pre7.20060415 and future
builds before pre9 name mplayer-1.0_pre8.YYYYMMDD (if it is possible)

or convert all 1.0_preX versions to 1.0.YYYYMMDD_preX with respective date otherwise...

Comment 1 whitehawk 2006-06-12 15:44:56 UTC

I found the same here, when I specified what to emerge, it was noted, that _pre8 is a downgrade compared to 20060415.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-13 00:12:19 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136520 ***

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-14 00:54:17 UTC

*** Bug 136747 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***