[Monotone-devel] Re: Release rules Was: Re: conflicts store vs show_conflicts

[Lapo Luchini]

Richard Levitte wrote:
> How does the algorithm compare when one of the version has a segment
> empty and the other doesn't in corresponding positions?

FreeBSD has got an official system tool to check the ordering of two
package revisions, which supports most of the FreeBSD Ports without need
for exceptions AFAIK (in fact, I never seen an exception myself):

usage:
pkg_version -t version1 version2

source and (readable shell-script) testcases:
http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/usr.sbin/pkg_install/version/

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