User story #11612
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Group search query: missing greater than and lesser than comparision for software version
Description
Hi,
in "group search" the criteria "greater than" or "smaller than" version is missing.
Which would be very useful to upgrade software to a certain version.
Best regards,
Alex
Updated by Benoît PECCATTE over 6 years ago
- User visibility changed from First impressions of Rudder to Getting started - demo | first install | level 1 Techniques
- Priority changed from 80 to 50
Indeed
Updated by François ARMAND over 4 years ago
- Priority changed from 50 to 0
I never answered on that, but for now, we don't have any ordering on version - they are just strings. The problem is that all distro seems to use their own ordering (and naming) scheme - when they are even self consistant.
Updated by Philip Seeger about 4 years ago
What a lt/gt comparison should do might depend on the context (e.g., name strings might either be compared lexically or alphanumerically, [a1,a11,a2] vs. [a1,a2,a11]). But this bug is about comparing OS versions and since the operators are < (lower than) and > (greater than), I would expect the results to be sorted alphanumerically or just numerically if it's a field which contains only digits and no characters.
For example, I would expect the kernel version "4.4.121-92.125-default" to come before "4.12.14-95.40-default" because the algorithm would go from left to right to determine that 4 is lower than 12. It's not important if there's a disto specific suffix like "slowturtle-default" at the end because all that matters with such a type of comparison is the number at the beginning.
Philip
Updated by François ARMAND about 2 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to User story
- Subject changed from Missing group criteria to Group search query: missing greater than and lesser than comparision for software version
- Severity deleted (
Minor - inconvenience | misleading | easy workaround) - Priority deleted (
0)