[bitbake-devel] bb.utils.vercmp() not consistent with debian rules

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:22:00AM +0000, Lu, Lianhao wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> When I'm looking at the Yocto bug#2233, I find that the function bb.utils.vercmp() is not consistent with the debian packaging rules(http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version). 
> 
> According to debian rules, "r0" is earlier than "r0-dream", but the bb.utils.vercmp() thinks "r0" is later than "r0-dream".

And what about something like this:

Version: 3.2-r10
is older then
Version: 3.2-r2-oe0

At least that was what target opkg was doing for me and I had to bump PE
http://git.shr-project.org/git/?p=meta-smartphone.git;a=commit;h=cb119753a77208617936085100595e6343ade650

Cheers,

> 
> A pervious patch http://cgit.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/?id=727ce6ffe33a119cb17f7d91b173f11a055eea3c seems causing the bb.utils.vercmp to specially handle the separators of "." and "-". 
> 
> Is it desired to behave differently from debian rules?
> 
> Best Regards,
> -Lianhao
> 
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