Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Fri Jul 14 20:00:20 UTC 2006


Le vendredi 14 juillet 2006 à 15:32 -0400, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Friday 14 July 2006 15:11, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > How about this convention for Fedora:
> >
> > Release: %{jpackage_release_number}.%{fedora_release_number}
> >
> > This example becomes:
> >
> > foo-2.3-1jpp -> foo-2.3-1.1 -> foo-2.3-2jpp -> foo-2.3-2.1

is 1jpp < 1.1 for rpm ?

> Add to this the dist tag and I think that's pretty acceptable.  It somewhat 
> breaks our <int>%{?dist}.<int> scheme, but its better than having jpp in 
> there.
> 
> so %{jpackage_release_number}.%{fedora_release_number}%{?dist}
> 
> foo-2.3-2jpp -> foo-2.3-1.2.fc6

This one won't work, as 2jpp > 1.2.fc6

Also you need to consider jpackage may need non-integer releases (like
alphatags) as much as Fedora, so without some sort on non-ambiguious
marker between the jpp and fc release things will break.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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