[packman] Fwd from openSUSE general: Why are packman package names not consistent?

[David C. Rankin]

Packman Devs,

   Here is a forward of my e-mail to the openSUSE list regarding packman 
package naming conventions not being consistent enough to allow easy old 
version removal. Example given below along with the question presented:


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Why are packman package names not consistent?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:35:08 -0500
From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>
Organization: Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
To: suse <users at lists.opensuse.org>

All,

   Doing maintenance on the Leap 154 --keep files from packman, duplicate 
removal is almost impossible as the file naming convention for packman rpms is 
all over the place. For example, in the past year I have filenames of:

pdftk-3.3.2-pm154.10.4.noarch.rpm
pdftk-3.3.3-150400.10.pm.6.noarch.rpm
pdftk-3.3.3-pm150400.10.4.noarch.rpm
pdftk-3.3.3-pm154.10.2.noarch.rpm

Where pdftk-3.3.3-150400.10.pm.6.noarch.rpm is the current.

   However, trying to either sort, or iterate in awk is impossible with some 
filenames containing "pm154" some just containing "150400" and still others 
containing "pm150400". That before we get to some with ".pm." and others not.

   How do you handle parsing duplicates from filenames such as this?

also

   Will the ".. 150400.10.pm.X .." filenames be consistent going forward?

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.