pkg Patches

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Oct-2006, Bill Denney wrote:

| So, I was working on packaging object graphics, and while doing that, I 
| found a bug in the package script where it was not showing an error 
| correctly.  I went through and fixed the errors given (most of the patch 
| is just removing \n from the end of each error string).
| 
| I also rewrote the compare_versions function and pulled it out of pkg (I 
| think it's generally useful, perhaps in the strings directory).  It can 
| now compare arbitrarily long version numbers with strings appended using 
| any boolean operator.  I'm not including this as a patch because I'm not 
| sure how to make a patch via cvs after a first change, and I know that 
| it's best to keep separate changes separate.  Before applying this, 
| please remove the compare_versions function from within pkg.

OK, I applied this patch.

Thanks,

jwe