[Fedora-packaging] Update guidelines with packages from CVS

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:52:23PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > So, under current guidelines, that would basically mean:
> > # cvsdate should be in the format YYYYMMDD
> > %define cvsdate 20050515
> > # 0.0 is used for applications that do not have a proper version number.
> > Version: 0.0
> > # Increment first digit of release if making a change without new source
> > # checkout, if new source checkout, reset to 1.
> > Release: 1.%cvsdate%{?dist}
> > Does that seem reasonable?
> Yes, IMO.
> For snapshots of software with a previous release, i.e. with a real %
> version, the string "cvs" or "svn" after cvsdate in the release field
> would make it more clear that it's a post-release snapshot.

So: 

Release: 1.cvs%{cvsdate}%{?dist}


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