alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

[Christopher Aillon]

On 11/28/2007 11:24 AM, Adam Tkac wrote:
>>From BIND changelog:
> * Tue Jun 19 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 31:9.5.0a5-1


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