Hi Richard,

given 9.2.1+git is a pre-release of 9.2.1, shouldn't it be versioned 9.2.1~git in order to be compared correctly:

$ LANG=C zypper vcmp gcc9-9.2.1+git1022-1.1 gcc9-9.2.1~git1022-1.1 gcc9-9.2.1+git1022-1.1 is newer than gcc9-9.2.1~git1022-1.1

Especially, if a gcc-9.2.1 version is released (I know, it's very unlikely for openSUSE to package a released gcc package):

$ LANG=C zypper vcmp gcc9-9.2.1-1.1 gcc9-9.2.1~git1022-1.1 gcc9-9.2.1-1.1 is newer than gcc9-9.2.1~git1022-1.1

Compare to: a 9.2.1+ version is always interpreted as newer:

$ LANG=C zypper vcmp gcc9-9.2.1-1.1 gcc9-9.2.1+git1022-1.1 gcc9-9.2.1-1.1 is older than gcc9-9.2.1+git1022-1.1

Maybe, you want to consider this change, when the suite is updated the next time.

Martin Liška (marxin) - about 4 years ago

Hello.

Thanks for heads up. We know about the problem which is caused by GCC transition from SVN to GIT.