On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:55:33PM +0100, Herve Eychenne wrote: > I think the convention of Debian Packages files with a line like > Depends: zope, python2.1-popy (>= 2.0.8), python2.1-popy (<< 2.0.9) > would just be perfect. > I just hope there is some kind of out-of-the-box perl module which > would deal with these kinds of versioning issues (handle parsing, > compare versions, resolve recursive dependencies, etc). I wish there was. At least my last search of the CPAN didn't reveal anything like that. If anyone knows such a module, please send me a link. > That would imply versioning of patches, which would be a good > thing. no. Currently we are just talking about dependencies of a patch towards an installed kernel version. Having one patch depend on a particular version of another patch is something different - and I don't see a way to implement that without storing that version information somewhere in the kernel tree. > Herve -- - Harald Welte http://www.netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie