Re: Non-numeric lz4 package version

[Igor Gnatenko]

You do rsplit() by the '-'. Right part is R.A. you remove arch and get
release.

What exactly you want to do? RPM and DNF have proper --queryformat.

-Igor Gnatenko

On Sep 28, 2016 8:52 PM, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Is it permitted to have a non-numeric Version field?
>  The guidelines are at best unclear on this topic:
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Versioning#Version_Tag
>
>  The lz4 package has version "r131":
>  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/lz4.git/tree/lz4.spec#n5
>
>  Corollary question: If I'm given an NVR string, how can I split it
>  into name, version and release?  I was using the regexp
>
>    ^(.*?)-(\d.*)-([^-]+)$
>
>  but that breaks on the lz4 package.
>
>  Rich.
>
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