RPM naming question.

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:09 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > It should be seen as a later version, so it should upgrade.
> 
> It would appear so to human parsers, but not to rpm (unless I've done
> something wrong with the fedora-rpmvercmp script :).

To humans, yes, but the "L" parses later than the corresponding ".":

	           |
	           v
	foo-0.6.5-7.fc7.rpm
	foo-0.6.5-7L.fc7.rpm
	           ^
	           |

I suspect the script is doing a character-by-character comparison, so
the shorter string has precedence and the "." is earlier in the ASCII
sequence than the "L" as well.

That's my opinion...I could be wrong. (with apologies to Dennis Miller).

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