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PPM: deps versioning fixed

August 31, 2012 — BarryK
A Puppy-format package database entry has a dependencies field that may have optional versioning, examples:

|+ncurses,+readline&ge2.3.5,+glibc|
|+ncurses,+readline,+linux_kernel&ge2.6.39&lt3.0|


Where the operators may be:
&ge, &gt, &eq, &le, &lt

...this was documented awhile back in my blog.

At the time, I didn't quite implement it fully in the Puppy Package Manager, or rather I did but didn't test it. Forum member npierce has been investigating this, and has posted a solution to the Forum:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=648934#648934

This fix looks good, I have put it into Woof:
http://bkhome.org/fossil/woof2.cgi/info/82b60b8633

Comments

ppm:bug or not


Re ppm config
Username: BarryK
"It states in bold letters in the Configuration window that the PPM must be restarted for changes to take effect.


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