Basic questions

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Mar 22 02:42:12 UTC 2005


> You lost me. When you say the he actual version of the program being
> packaged I intuit you mean the "v" of the rpm's n-v-r. One would hope
> that is correct in the spec file. Its the "r" part of n-v-r we need
> automatically generated. Given the release field is a function of the
> distribution and previous builds (across distributions) I don't see why
> the release field could not easily be automatically generated. I don't
> see any need for human interaction.
> 
> But perhaps I misunderstood your point or I'm failing to take into
> consideration some other facet.

Sometimes the v component from one ver to the next doesn't increment in
a vercmp so you have two ways around that so that rpm sees it is an
update:
 1. use an epoch
 2. split the ver's extra items across the release tag.

That's where the complexity lies.

-sv





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