[sbopkg-discuss] Re: SBo updates

[Chess Griffin]

João Felipe Santos wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Chess Griffin <chess.griffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, samac.  Just to clarify:  you had flash 9.0_r124 installed and
>> the updates menu did not list flash 10.0_r12 as a potential update?
>>
>> Chess Griffin
> 
> Hello Chess,
> 
> I had this trouble with flash too, it was not displayed as a potential
> update by sbopkg.
> 
> João
> 

Okay, thanks for the reports.  I had some other reports via email and
the majority of these issues hinge on what I call the 'decimal' problem
in Bash, where, for example, 3.9 is 'greater than' 3.11 -- or where a
Flash version that starts with 9 is 'greater than' a Flash version that
starts with 1 -- since Bash compares the ascii values of strings and
doesn't really understand decimals.  I've spent many hours over the last
several days testing out many different fixes, including using bc, but
in the end, opted to use the brute force way:  shove a zero in front of
single decimals, so 3.9 becomes 03.09 which will now test as less than
03.11.  Or, in the case of Orbit2, another problem child, 02.14.05 is
now less than 02.14.16.  :-)

Anyway, I just committed some code to svn which (hopefully) addresses
this issue.  If anyone wants to pull from svn and test, I would greatly
appreciate it.

-- 
Chess Griffin
GPG Key:  0x0C7558C3
http://www.chessgriffin.com

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sbopkg-discuss" group.
To post to this group, send email to sbopkg-discuss at googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sbopkg-discuss+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sbopkg-discuss?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---