1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/versioncmp.c b/lib/libalpm/versioncmp.c
index 489e109d..d23f0568 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/versioncmp.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/versioncmp.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ int _alpm_versioncmp(const char *a, const char *b)
 
 	if((!*one) && (!*two)) {
 		/* compare release numbers */
-		if(rel1 && rel2) return(_alpm_versioncmp(rel1, rel2));
+		if(rel1 && rel2 && strlen(rel1) && strlen(rel2)) return(_alpm_versioncmp(rel1, rel2));
 		return(0);
 	}