Disttag for Fedora 7 and beyond

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 08:43 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it has often come up lately that since the "Core" will be removed from
> Fedora as a name the currently used disttag of fcN needs to be
> adjusted. As long as people were discussing what Fedora will be named
> it was difficult to nail some acronym, but now the simple "Fedora"
> emerged (which is good IMO).
> 
> The problem is that the natural disttag of f7 is rpm-lesser that any
> fcN. There are two paths to take:
> 
> a) Don't care about upgrade paths through disttags, just rebuild
>    everything with a higher buildid (the part of the release before
>    the disttag) and you can pick any disttag you like.
> 
>    The pros are obviously that one can use .f7, the cons are that
>    we'll artificially introduce a specfile difference between many
>    fc5/fc6 and f7/f8 specfiles which will make maintenance more error
>    prone (foo will be foo-1-1.fc5, foo-1-1.fc6, foo-1-2.f7,
>    foo-1-2.f8, e.g. foo-1-1%{?dist} pre- and foo-1-2%{?dist}
>    post-merge). Add RHEL4/5 to the mix and the buildid confusion is
>    perfect. It would haunt us until early 2008 (EOL for fc6), but then
>    we'd be using our favourite disttag w/o a specfile era barrier
>    anymore.
> 
> b) Make sure any abbreviation used in the disttag for Fedora 7 and
>    above is higher than that of fc6 and below. I.e. find something
>    that is rpm-newer than "fc". "f" itself is lesser, capitalized
>    versions the same. If one want to stick with something that starts
>    with an "f" and has minimal characters one needs to play with "fd"
>    to "fz". Out of them two seem to make sense acronym-wise (perhaps
>    other's are also making sense, speak up if you spot one!):
> 
>      "fl" (Fedora Linux) or
>      "fp" (Fedora Project).
> 
>    fl was up to now semantically occupied by the legacy project, but
>    it's free to use now.
> 
>    The downside is that it implies that "Fedora" is "Fedora Linux" or
>    "Fedora Project" which may be good or bad, it depends on marketing
>    strategies.

How about "fv" (Fedora Version) or "fr" (Fedora Release)?

Paul.