"10" < "9": Get rid of string comparisons in time for F-10?

Hans Ulrich Niedermann hun at n-dimensional.de
Fri May 23 23:00:26 UTC 2008


On #fedora-devel, the issue of comparing Fedora versions by string 
comparison just came up. With F-10 on the way, this will be the first 
time when string comparing versions will fail in a "10" < "7" way.

The case in question was a classic older %if "%{?fedora}" > "7", which 
should be changed to %if 0%{?fedora} > 7, as Rex Dieter and Christopher 
Stone have pointed out: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/DistTag#head-1c550109af0705ccb71329619b99428af2fd3e25

Where else but in spec files may similarly wrong string comparisons be 
happening? Is a systematic effort required to fix these comparisons in 
the run-up to F-10?

-- 
Hans Ulrich Niedermann

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