Subject: Re: how do I specify version 5.005_03 of perl?
To: Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.aug.zwei@onlinehome.de>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/17/2002 04:39:06
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> 5.005_03 is a rather unusual version number.  How do I tell packages to
> use at least this version for BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.perl?  5.5.3 ? 5.005.03?

Well, let's play with pkg_admin a bit:

miyu% pkg_admin pmatch 'perl>5.005_03' perl-5.005_03 ; echo $?
1
miyu% pkg_admin pmatch 'perl>=5.005_03' perl-5.005_03 ; echo $?
0
miyu% pkg_admin pmatch 'perl>=5.005_03' perl-5.006_03 ; echo $?
0
miyu% pkg_admin pmatch 'perl>=5.005_03' perl-5.002_03 ; echo $?
1
miyu% pkg_admin pmatch 'perl>=5.005_03' perl-5.008 ; echo $?
0
miyu% pkg_admin pmatch 'perl>=5.005_03' perl-5.8.0 ; echo $?
0
miyu% pkg_admin pmatch 'perl>=5.005_03' perl-4.036 ; echo $?
1


=> Using 'perl>=5.005_03' sounds pretty sane.


 - Hubert

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