[csw-maintainers] bash_completion and modification of the version numbering scheme

[Yann Rouillard]

Le 08.04.2009 00:11, Peter Bonivart a écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Mike Watters<mwatters at opencsw.org>  wrote:
>> sorry, I miss read the post. You can override the variable(s)
>> in the package set GARVERSION as x.x and have
>> SPKG_VERSION be YYYYMMDD (as package build date)
>
> But why would we fake the upstream version and for how long should we
> keep doing that? Some packages, like my geodb and possibly pca,
> doesn't have versions at all so we assign something like YYMMDD to it
> but in this case the end users would be confused, right?
>
> This would also be really ugly:
>
> 20090408,REV=2009.04.08_rev=1.0
>

I would also prefer to follow the upstream version numbering for the 
package, that seems closer to the standard 
http://www.opencsw.org/standards/build .

Why pkgutil and pkg-get don't have the same way to compare package 
versions ? It wasn't supposed to be standard ?

Yann