Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

[Florian La Roche]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:08:12AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 08:04, Florian La Roche wrote:
> > I think we should not set dist for the -devel branch and only add
> > this once a release is done and we build update packages.
> 
> That won't work.
> 
> foo-2.3-4%{?dist} for fc5 would become foo-2.3-4.fc5 and for devel it would be 
> foo-2.3-4.  Now you have an fc5 package that is rpmnewer than the devel 
> package.  -EBROKENUPGRADEPATH :/

But you first have to add a patch and increase the number if you build
a package for the updates, so this should really work nicely.

regards,

Florian La Roche