[Fedora-packaging] Update guidelines with packages from CVS

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:32:27 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:43:53PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > In the FC-3 repo, you start with:
> > > foo-0.0-1.20050315.noarch.com (pre-release cvs checkout)
> > > In FC-4, you need a later checkout:
> > > foo-0.0-1.20050515.noarch.com
> > > The FC-3 package needs a bugfix errata, without new cvs checkout. FC-4
> > > does not.
> > This is my earlier example. Solution as above:
> >   foo-0.0-1.2.20050315.noarch.com (fixed pre-release cvs checkout)
> 
> Except, isn't that *older* than foo-0.0-1.20050315? (2 < 20050315)?

Yes, .2 inserted in the wrong place. In the context of above scenario:

 FC-3: foo-0.0-1.20050315.noarch.rpm
 FC-4: foo-0.0-1.20050515.noarch.rpm

 FC-3 => foo-0.0-1.20050315.2.noarch.rpm

The leading 1. is most-significant here to overrule the snapshot date, so
an update to 1.20050315 would be created by appending a least-significant
digit.