NVR bugs in rawhide

[Daniel Mach]

Caolán McNamara wrote:
> 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 ?
>   
Nothing changed. See my reply to Jakub's email, please.
>   
>> 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.
>   
That's a good point, I was never thinking about post-release snapshot 
packages, always just about pre-release ones.
Thanks for catching that.

- daniel

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Daniel Mach <dmach at redhat.com>
Release Engineering, Red Hat