Disttag for Fedora 7 and beyond

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

it has often come up lately that since the "Core" will be removed from
Fedora as a name the currently used disttag of fcN needs to be
adjusted. As long as people were discussing what Fedora will be named
it was difficult to nail some acronym, but now the simple "Fedora"
emerged (which is good IMO).

The problem is that the natural disttag of f7 is rpm-lesser that any
fcN. There are two paths to take:

a) Don't care about upgrade paths through disttags, just rebuild
   everything with a higher buildid (the part of the release before
   the disttag) and you can pick any disttag you like.

   The pros are obviously that one can use .f7, the cons are that
   we'll artificially introduce a specfile difference between many
   fc5/fc6 and f7/f8 specfiles which will make maintenance more error
   prone (foo will be foo-1-1.fc5, foo-1-1.fc6, foo-1-2.f7,
   foo-1-2.f8, e.g. foo-1-1%{?dist} pre- and foo-1-2%{?dist}
   post-merge). Add RHEL4/5 to the mix and the buildid confusion is
   perfect. It would haunt us until early 2008 (EOL for fc6), but then
   we'd be using our favourite disttag w/o a specfile era barrier
   anymore.

b) Make sure any abbreviation used in the disttag for Fedora 7 and
   above is higher than that of fc6 and below. I.e. find something
   that is rpm-newer than "fc". "f" itself is lesser, capitalized
   versions the same. If one want to stick with something that starts
   with an "f" and has minimal characters one needs to play with "fd"
   to "fz". Out of them two seem to make sense acronym-wise (perhaps
   other's are also making sense, speak up if you spot one!):

     "fl" (Fedora Linux) or
     "fp" (Fedora Project).

   fl was up to now semantically occupied by the legacy project, but
   it's free to use now.

   The downside is that it implies that "Fedora" is "Fedora Linux" or
   "Fedora Project" which may be good or bad, it depends on marketing
   strategies.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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