Adapting from RPM, follow the [epoch:]version[-release] syntax. We can also
borrow some of their parsing code for our purposes (thanks!). Add some new
tests to our vercmp shell script tester for epoch comparisons, and then make
the code work with these newfangled epoch specifiers.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
It isn't really necessary here and it helps us get rid of some link
pollution so we can have a slim vercmp binary.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
This will facilitate using this object file on its own in the vercmp tool
which will be done in a future commit. The net impact on the generated
binaries should not be noticeable after this commit.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
