[oe] Avoid version going backwards for beta versions

[Andreas Müller]

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:28 PM, André Draszik <git at andred.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 01:32 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There was a pre-release for fluidsynth-2.0.0.beta and I expect the
>> release will be fluidsynth-2.0.0. How would I name the beta recipe to
>> avoid version going backwards with 2.0.0?
>>
>> I know there was a thread where Martin gave hints how to achieve but I
>> can't find it - sigh.
>>
>> Please help a forgetful old man :)
>
> What I tend to do is something like:
>
> fluidsynth-1.99+2.0.0.beta
^ I think this is what I was looking for.
>
> In debian based distros, the tilde will always cause sorting to be lower
> than the version specified before the tilde, so e.g.
>
> fluidsynth-2.0.0~beta.1
>
> works as expected, and I *think* this latter approach works in OE, too.
Will try.

Thanks

Andreas