Bug 4695

Summary:	portage should compare version segments that are all integer as integers
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jon Nelson (RETIRED) <jnelson>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jnelson
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jon Nelson (RETIRED) 2002-07-08 08:09:58 UTC

Thus 1.100 is "newer" than 1.99.
Otherwise, a pure alphabetical sort would show (in order of oldest->newest)

1.100
1.2
1.250
1.30
1.550
1.90
1.99

Which is obviously wrong (or, at least, counter-intuitive).

If you can point me in the right direction, perhaps I'll take a stab at this.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-09 12:28:23 UTC

This is exactly what Portage does.  This bug report doesn't list any specific
bug, so I'm closing it.