NVR bugs in rawhide

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Tue Jul 14 08:30:03 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:21 +0200, Daniel Mach wrote:
> Release doesn't contain a %dist tag.
>  - %dist is missing in Release: in spec
>  - 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Using_the_.25.7B.3Fdist.7D_Tag

"If you wish", so until now it hasn't been an error to not have one. Has
this changed ?

> Pre-release build's release should start with '0.'.
> - a pre-release build is detected with these patterns: "test", "alpha", 
> "beta", "rc", "[\.0-9]a[\.0-9]", "b[0-9]+", "snap", "pre", "dev", 
> "build", "bzr", "cvs", "svn", "git", "hg", "trunk", "branch"
> - release should start with .0, but generally it can start with any 
> number as long as it's bumped before each build.

But of course we also have post-release snapshot packages, so if
alliance-5.0-26.20070718snap is a svn/cvs snapshot *post* 5.0 release
then its be perfectly correct, right ?

C.




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