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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :/

Yes; it seems the right fix is in opkg.

Using RCONFLICTS with << also fails to me as said yestarday on IRC.

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