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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2012-01-12 17:29:14 -0600 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2012-01-12 17:30:08 -0600 |
| commit | e8a2c2545608c556cb65d96e7015a1d09d8b3890 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b8fff8fb4573b0a940d8c020167936f259f9c59 /doc/vercmp.8.txt | |
| parent | b6209b4ba495dd4379806b72735dac78b8843c03 (diff) | |
doc/vercmp: add note about pkgrel handling
This comes from the Doxygen function documentation. Also, fix two rather
silly misspellings.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/vercmp.8.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/vercmp.8.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/vercmp.8.txt b/doc/vercmp.8.txt index 4b0490fa..6b94f3e4 100644 --- a/doc/vercmp.8.txt +++ b/doc/vercmp.8.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ vercmp(8) Name ---- -vercmp - version comparsion utility +vercmp - version comparison utility Synopsis @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ numbers. It outputs values as follows: * = 0 : if ver1 == ver2 * > 0 : if ver1 > ver2 -Version comparsion operates as follows: +Version comparison operates as follows: Alphanumeric: 1.0a < 1.0b < 1.0beta < 1.0p < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0 < 1.0.a < 1.0.1 @@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ overrule any version comparison (unless the epoch values are equal). This is specified in an `epoch:version-rel` format. For example, `2:1.0-1` is always greater than `1:3.6-1`. +Keep in mind that the 'pkgrel' is only compared if it is available on both +versions given to this tool. For example, comparing `1.5-1` and `1.5` will +yield 0; comparing `1.5-1` and `1.5-2` will yield < 0 as expected. This is +mainly for supporting versioned dependencies that do not include the 'pkgrel'. + Options ------- |