tech-pkg: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg

Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install (fwd)
To: tech-pkg@NetBSD.org, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/09/2006 22:04:09

(moving this to tech-pkg)

>>Modified Files:
>>	src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add: perform.c
>>	src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib: config.h version.h
>>
>>Log Message:
>>Add conditional code to ignore the non-numeric part of an OS version
>>for the sake of compatibility tests in pkg_add.
>>E.g. DragonFly versions like
>>	1.4.0-RELEASE
>>are reduced to
>>	1.4.0
>>
>>This code is disabled by default on NetBSD.

I think it would be nice to enable this for NetBSD, too, so I can install 
packages made for 3.0 on my 3.0_STABLE kernel.


  - Hubert