Bug 825087

Summary:	RFE: Handle '~' in version/release to lower priority in rpmVersionCompare()
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Patrik Kis <pkis>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.3	CC:	ffesti, hannes, jnovy, ksrot, pkis, pmatilai
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	734802	Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-02-21 10:51:28 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	734802
Bug Blocks:	843460

Description Panu Matilainen 2012-05-25 05:19:01 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #734802 +++

This seems like a nice to have feature, so I wanted to forward it from rpm.org's trac (currently read-only):

From <http://rpm.org/ticket/56>:
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It would be nice when a special handling of '~' would be introduced to mark "negative" version tokens. E.g. so that

| foo-1.0~beta < foo-1.0

holds. This would simplify complicated rulesets which deal with such naming schemes by abusing %release for it. 
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Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2012-05-25 05:20:55 UTC

Cloned for RHEL-6 as the koji builders need to support this before the feature can be used in Fedora (and eventually RHEL-7)

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2012-07-10 08:10:30 UTC

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2012-07-11 01:52:02 UTC

This request was erroneously removed from consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, which is currently under development.  This request will be evaluated for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 10:51:28 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0461.html