On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:49:37AM -0600, Jima wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Adam Tkac wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:40:52PM +0100, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> On a separate unrelated note, please do not append "a" to the RPM
Version
>> field for alphas. As far as RPM is concerned "9.5.0a5" >
"9.5.0" which
>> means you have to keep changing the epoch [31! wow :-(] The correct way is
>> to have a 0.a. or similar in the Release field.
>>
>> This is documented in the packaging guidelines:
>>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#PreReleasePackages
>
> That package was released before I read policy :) Now all is quite
> correct (9.5.0-18.a7)
I was going to go off on you for using 8.5.0a5 in the %version, but then I
checked what was actually on my nameserver and saw you didn't flub that up.
:-)
However, a minor point to note in the future is that it really ought to be
9.5.0-0.18.a7, as per:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-d97a3f40b6d...
...but I'll let you get by with a light slap on the wrist. ;-)
Jima
It means raise epoch. And it could be danger because epoch could be
int8_t type (not sure :) ) and it could cause overflow when We hit
epoch 128 :)
Adam
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