Re: SGML/XML packages available for testing

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:


> It is still dubious for me.
> Setup was able to fetch it from the server during 'Download only' with
> version number '1'.  But when doing an install from local directory it
> wasn't offered anymore in the chooser.
> IIRC Setup is able to install packages even if there is no version in
> the name string (e.g. foo.tar.gz).


Yes, but the problem here is that '-p4- is interpreted as "another part 
of the name" since it BEGINS with an alphabetic character.  E.g. in 
"tetex-beta-", the 'beta' is part of the name, not a version.  So, setup 
is probably recording this as
   package: xml-base-p4
   version: 1
   release: <none>

Perhaps renaming it to xml-base-4p-1 would help?  Then, the parser would 
figure it out thus:
   package: xml-base
   version: 4p
   release: 1

Or am I just talking bull patties?

--Chuck