Did i just made the fastest dependency checker in the world? (198 packages in 1.5 seconds)

[Andy Burns]

On 10/04/07, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> so.. is mysql yust removing out those first 2 zero`s?... i`m having a hard time believing that..
> oke.. i wrote a tiny php script to make this clear:

> the result on my php (5.2.1) is: "see, 5.00504 is smaller than 5.6 like i said" and "see,
they  1.1 is not equal to 1.01"

It isn't what PHP *thinks*, it it what RPM *knows* that counts.

> those are the facts that are gonna be used in the dep checker. though i will probably need to break the recursive loop quite a few time if those strange version numbers like 1.1b2 occur...
> so jesse... how is your math going? ;)

Errr, people have been very patient and provided gentle hints about
how many things you've overlooked, you need to start reading the
source code of yum and rpm I think.