Fedora Tracker: Part Deux
Chip Turner
cturner at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 01:20:22 UTC 2004
Brad Smith <brads at redhat.com> writes:
> > When multiple versions of the same
> > package are returned within a category, it should sort so that the
> > "newest" package is displayed first.
> >
>
> The query currently does "ORDER BY package.name, package.version,
> package.release, package.arch", which should (and seems to) list
> packages in descending version order. Would it be simpler if the package
> list was not also sorted by arch, or are you referring to something
> else?
Won't quite work -- the alphabetical ordering of versions isn't
necessarily correct wrt rpm's versioning. rpmvercmp is a bit more
complicated, unfortunately.
Chip
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