On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 23:34:15 -0400 (EDT), Scott Talbert wrote:
I've got a package where upstream that has basically stopped
doing
releases, so I package git snapshots. However, the last release they did
was a pre-release (0.8.0rc1). Any suggestions on what an appropriate
Release tag should be in this case?
Something like:
0.%{releasenum}.rc1git%{shortcommit}%{?dist}
Version: 0.8.0
Release: 0.%{releasenum}.rc1%{?dist}
That's the normal pre-release versioning scheme.
Absolutely no need to insert the git snapshot stuff in there as well.
In case you update to a future snapshot, it's possible to return to the
snapshot versioning scheme. Afterall, %{releasenum} is most significant
in both schemes, and if bumped correctly, anything right of it doesn't
matter during RPM version comparison.