From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 37557 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2017 19:33:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 37545 invoked by uid 89); 27 Oct 2017 19:33:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.244) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:33:45 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id v9RJXhC7014413 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:33:43 -0400 Received: from [10.13.22.3] (65-112-130-194.dia.static.qwest.net [65.112.130.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id v9RJXgrD015711 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:33:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20171027184723.9324-1-kbrown@cornell.edu> <87wp3gs87a.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <31bf3451-47a5-907a-2d10-4c1913a05a5a@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:33:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87wp3gs87a.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=X X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00153.txt.bz2 On 10/27/2017 3:26 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form >> e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these >> correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used, >> there is an additional problem in reading filenames containing colons. >> The reading is done by Win32 functions, and the illegal characters >> like ':' aren't translated. > > I don't really think it's worth anybody's while to introduce support for > a feature (epochs) that everone else decided should not be used. Do we > really want to use epochs and what for? The libsolv branch already supports them. That was my motivation for these changes. Ken