svn or arch

[Dries Verachtert]

On Friday 17 December 2004 22:30, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> > Yes; but you still have the rpm revision number.  I
> > am arguing for its
> > removal entirely.  That's one less spurious thing
> > you see in a diff
> > between branches, and one less thing to merge
> > conflict on.
>
> can such things be done without breaking compatibility ?

Do you mean the Release tag or the Version-Release of a spec file with 'the 
rpm revision number'?

If i'm correct, you suggest to remove the release or the version-release  
completely from the spec file.. this would make it impossible to build the 
spec file with a 'rpmbuild -ba bla.spec'. What about adding default tags like  
'Release: 1' which gets replaced by the build system of Fedora Extras?

Such tags can be changed by the Fedora Extras buildsystem before it starts a 
rebuild of a spec file, no?  I'm also doing something like that with my 
self-made mini buildsystem: the last commit revision of that spec file is 
added automatically to the first changelog entry.
This makes it possible to check automatically which spec files are already 
built for a certain distro/arch and which are not because i can compare the 
svncmtid of the binary rpms with the current version of a spec file in the  
subversion repository. I really like this kind of automated stuff which makes 
life a lot easier for me :-)  This is also possible with cvs instead of 
subversion and the release tag (or version and release tag) instead of the 
changelog i guess.

kind regards,
Dries Verachtert