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Re: subtle problem with x86_64 automake1.4


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 08:56:40AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 9/10/2013 1:50 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>upset's version normalizer considers (not unreasonably I think)
>>4-1.4p6-11 to be the same as 4-1.4-p6-11.  So, having both files in the
>>same directory is going to confuse things.
>
>Yaakov explained downthread how this came about.  I /did/ notice that
>the Release numbers (11) were the same between my "new" version and
>Yaakov's bootstrap version, but figured that since the Version numbers
>differed in format that upset would handle it (I may have even
>specifically added prev: and curr: entries to the setup.hint to
>disambiguate priority, in case upset sorted differently than I wanted;
>but I'm not sure about that).

You did do that but upset doesn't care about dashes in version numbers
that much.

>>I've added a kludge to the version sorter that upset uses which causes
>>-p6 to sort before p6 but, please don't create packages with different
>>patch number versioning schemes like this.
>
>Sorry for the confusion; it's just one of those bootstrap/NMU things
>we'll slowly work thru as the "real" maintainers catch up to all of
>Yaakov's wonderful work with the 64bit bootstrapping.
>
>>This manifested as a neverending setup.ini creation.  Every time there
>>was a new run of upset, a new version of setup.ini would be created
>>because the a "new" automake1.4 package was constantly being detected.
>>That meant that mirrors could never catch up and the result is that we
>>have almost no mirrors available currently.
>
>Yikes.  That's...bad.  :-(
>
>Sorry I didn't catch this thread earlier; I've been really sick this
>week.

Hey, me too!  101.something fever.  I'm just starting to feel normal.

cgf


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