On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:21:47PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 13:59 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > I propose we change the release format for snapshot kernels. > > > Now we get e.g.: > > > > > > kernel-2.6.23-0.89.rc2.git2.fc8 > > > > > > and I suggest instead: > > > > > > kernel-2.6.23-0.rc2.git2.89.fc8 > > > > > > That is, put the spec file version number last, not first. This way, when > > > we forget to reset fedora_cvs_origin after a rebase, we don't have to wait > > > for the next kernel version to do it, just the next gitN. > > > > > > We can't make this change until 2.6.23 sails, since for rpm version > > > comparison rc* is < any [0-9]. > > > > Please don't do this. The kernel package is finally compliant with the > > Fedora Packaging Guidelines and this change would break it again. > > > > The reason we prefix with the 0.# is to prevent versioning comparison > > madness. > > What? I didn't propose removing the 0. prefix. What is the problem? Look closer, there's a `#´ in Tom's reply, which is what you want to move away. Actually the 0. prefix is not neccessary it is a leftover from 3rd party techniques to indicate vendor hierarchies, but it's difficult to knock out people's head. The important bit is that by having the `#´ before the part-of-the- version-that-had-to-be-banned-to-the-release-tag-because-otherwise-the- version-would-not-properly-increment you become independent of any upstream versioning trickery. git/rc versioning is not that new, and who knows whether next year we'll have pre/rc/gold/ga/pl madness in upstream sub-versioning. So please keep the buildtag as `#´ is often referred to before the part-of-the-version-that-had-to-be-banned -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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