[Libguestfs] [PATCH] list-applications: Add support for pacman

[Nikos Skalkotos]

It's not exactly a problem but Debian supports an epoch. The format is
like this:

[epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision]

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version

Right now if a package has a version like this: 1:1.2.3-1, libguestfs
will translate it as:
epoch=0
version = 1:1.2.3
release=1

The same thing does my patch for pacman. If we are to leave it like
this, then it makes more sense to do the same for pacman, otherwise in
both cases the version field should be translated to:

epoch=1
version = 1.2.3
release=1

Nikos

On 17 November 2014 15:12, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 03:01:57PM +0200, Nikos Skalkotos wrote:
>> OK, I'll try to fix the epoch thing for all three.
>
> Actually I've just fixed it (for RPM -- I don't think Debian
> has a problem).
>
> If Arch has an Epoch-like field, then it'd be good to fix that.
>
> Rich.
>
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