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

[Lu, Lianhao]

Martin Jansa wrote on 2012-04-05:
> 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

I think this is exactly what the debian rules wants, "3.2-r10">"3.2-r2-oe0". And opkg follows that rule.

The problem is that bb.utils.vercmp thinks "3.2-r2">"3.2-r2-oe0" while opkg thinks "3.2-r2"<"3.2-r2-oe0".

-Lianhao

> 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=cb119753
> a77208617936085100595e6343ade650
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>> 
>> A pervious patch
>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/?id=727ce6ffe33a119cb17f7d91
>> b173f11a055eea3c 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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