[OE-core] [oe-commits] Martin Jansa : xserver-xorg: use EXTENDPKGV instead of PV in RCONFLICTS_${PN}-module-exa

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> Just an FYI -- Martin Jansa found a problem with the implement of the
> package version comparison.
>
> In deb and ipk, they do not support '<' or '>', instead it's '<<' and '>>'.
> (Odd, historical reasons apparently).
>
> While RPM doesn't have any idea what '<<' or '>>' is.
>
> Talking with RP and others it seems like the best approach is to implement a
> conversion, in the deb and ipk packaging classes, to convert '<' and '>' to
> the '<<' and '>>' equivalents.  As well as add a sanity check that nobody is
> using '<<' or '>>'.
>
> I'm in the process of doing that now.
>
> --Mark

There is still some problem in opkg, now when I'm testing << with opkg
which should work as LESS (and < as LESS_EQUAL), it still shows <= in
opkg status and behaves like <=. So there is probably some bug in opkg
still hidden :/