Philosophy 101 Question: Does anyone know what standards might exist on generating Version and Release numbers for RPM spec files. ie. Version 1.2.3 Release...
Michael J. Donahue
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Feb 20, 2001 9:06 pm
... Version is for the version number of the packaged app, which you describe above. Release is for the the release number of the RPM itself, and should start...
mattdm@...
Feb 20, 2001 9:12 pm
... Doesn't 'Release' normally start at 1? -Ian _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
Ian Alexander
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Feb 20, 2001 9:18 pm
... Uh. Yes. Brain said "one", fingers said z-e-r-o. Dunno what's up with that. Sorry. -- Matthew Miller --->...
mattdm@...
Feb 20, 2001 9:20 pm
... That is up to the packager. You can start at: 0.0.0.0.0.0.1 if you like, or even use: 344lalkdjflaksdjfoaifjpoef It is pretty arbitrary. ... Mike A....
Mike A. Harris
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Feb 21, 2001 11:37 am
... "Standards"?! It's a good thing you put that in the plural. I was under the impression that one "should" use the Version of the Source Code (and/or...
Mark Amidon
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Feb 20, 2001 10:20 pm
... I've often wished for some kind of "style guide" like this. It seems reasonable to me, to only reset the release number when re-writing the spec file AND...
Wil Cooley
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Feb 20, 2001 10:35 pm
... [snip] ... Why would you bump the release number (4) when re-building for another RPM distro? There's nothing in the spec files that I change to rebuild ...
Gregory Leblanc
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Feb 20, 2001 10:53 pm
... You'd bump the %{RELEASE} "number" just because this is a different "release" of the package. For example, do you really want the RedHat release of: ...
Mark Amidon
amidon@...
Feb 20, 2001 11:56 pm
Well, I would recommend removing autogenerated dependencies from a "production" spec file, anyway. I would recommend filling in the proper Requires (and...
Ian Alexander
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Feb 21, 2001 12:00 am
... This is much a personal taste thing, and depends on your experience. If something doesn't work, you change it until it does what you and your customers...
Mike A. Harris
mharris@...
Feb 21, 2001 11:36 am
... The autogenerated dependencies go into the binary RPM, not the spec file. Contrast your spec file with `rpm -qRp my-splufty-app-1-0.i386.rpm` to see the...
Mark Amidon
amidon@...
Feb 21, 2001 10:17 pm
... For very picky packaging wrto perl, you also need to add an epoch, as in Requires: perl >= 1:5.6.0 to avoid some unavoidable weirdness with epoch's...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Feb 21, 2001 11:30 pm
... I'm sorry; what's the hazard of allowing skyrocketing release numbers? -- Mark Amidon | "Even within the walls of Microsoft, ...
Mark Amidon
amidon@...
Feb 21, 2001 10:17 pm
... Mainly personal preference. It is the same reason that software designers don't name their software versions like this: Version 1, Version 2, .... Version...
Mike A. Harris
mharris@...
Feb 24, 2001 8:41 pm
... We're talking the same thing here. When I said removing them from the spec file, I was talking about using "AutoReq: 0" (or whatever it is) in the spec...
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