[Fedora-packaging] [DRAFT] Post Release Naming/Tags

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 17:31 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 23:13 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> >> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> >>> I have added a draft for handling Post Release packages.
> >>>
> >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/PostRelease
> >>>
> >>> Comments are always welcomed.
> >>>
> >>> ~spot
> >> I would appreciate it if you would argue the case
> >> in which upstream uses the tarball like
> >>
> >> <name>-<version>-<release>.tar.gz.
> >>
> >> One case is ImageMagick, and the other case is:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230560
> > IMO, in such cases the upstream "version-release" should be treated as
> > rpm's "version"
> 
> '-' is not a valid character in an rpm version.

man tr

%define tarvers 1.2.3-4.5.6
%define rpmvers %{expand:%(echo %tarver | tr - _)}
Version: %rpmvers

The real issue however is elsewhere: 
What is the next "upstream version" of a package, after this
"version-release"?


Are we talking about snapshots?
E.g. gcc-4.1.2-20070123 -> final version: gcc-4.1.2
In this case, using "4.1.2-20070123" as rpmversion would be a mistake.

Or are we just talking about "upstream" using versioning which doesn't
fit into rpm's expectations, e.g.
xxx-1-20070123
xxx-1-20070210
...
In this case, what I said above would work.


Ralf