building CVS rpm versioning

[Ian Malone]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> I'd like to build an RPM or two from the CVS source, while I can get
>> rpmbuild to spit out a set of RPMs I'd like to be able to do the
>> versioning so a new release from Core/Extras/elsewhere would still
>> replace it once available.  What's the best way to go about this?
> 
> Check out the Naming Guidelines page on the Fedora Wiki:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-18aa467fc6925455e44be682fd336667a17e8933
> 
> There you'll find some guidelines with a discussion of how to handle
> cvs versions and such.
> 
> A quick example.  Say you're building gtkpod from CVS.
> 
> You could use something like this in your spec file:
> 
> %define cvs_date 20061126
> 
> Name: gtkpod
> Version: 0.99.9
> Release: 0.2.%{cvs_date}
> 
> This way, whenever 0.99.9 is released you can simply bump the Release
> field to 1 and it will take precedence over all of your 0.99.9 CVS
> builds.
> 

Perfect, thanks.

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imalone