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From: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg-mgr-commands.tex: Two small fixes for version commands.
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 17:21:39
Message-Id: 23300.20892.374921.619604@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 Version separators can consist of several characters. Clarify this
2 in the regexp accordingly.
3
4 A range of components or separators is not a "range of versions".
5 Say "range" only, because the meaning is clear from context.
6 ---
7 pkg-mgr-commands.tex | 6 +++---
8 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
9
10 diff --git a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex
11 index 01c0c6d..be05322 100644
12 --- a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex
13 +++ b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex
14 @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ a series of version components and version separators.
15
16 A version component consists either purely of digits (\t{[0-9]+}) or purely of uppercase and
17 lowercase ASCII letters (\t{[A-Za-z]+}). A version separator is either a string of any other
18 -characters (\t{[\textasciicircum A-Za-z0-9]}) or it occurs at the transition between a sequence
19 +characters (\t{[\textasciicircum A-Za-z0-9]+}), or it occurs at the transition between a sequence
20 of digits and a sequence of letters, or vice versa. In the latter case, the version separator is
21 an empty string.
22
23 @@ -948,8 +948,8 @@ followed by a hyphen (\t{-}), which in turn is optionally followed by another un
24
25 A single integer specifies a single component or separator index. An integer followed by a hyphen
26 specifies all components or separators starting with the one at the specified index. Two integers
27 -separated by a hyphen specify a range of versions starting at the index specified by the first
28 -and ending at the second, inclusively.
29 +separated by a hyphen specify a range starting at the index specified by the first and ending at
30 +the second, inclusively.
31
32 \begin{description}
33 \item[ver_cut] Takes a range as the first argument, and optionally a version string as the second.
34 --
35 2.17.0

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