Hi all, I have some comments on DistTags in the Naming Guidelines. Regarding both existing Documentation on fedora.us and Warren's proposed guidelines. Reference link: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines _Documentation: * Neither Warren's Proposal or the fedora.us Naming Guidelines mention that the disttag is generated by the buildsystem on fedora.us. I'd like to add the following near the top of the section: Note: If you are building packages for fedora.us, you should not manually add a %{disttag} to the spec files. The buildsystem (and mach, on which it is based) automatically appends the proper %{disttag} when the package is built for the target platform. Instead, be sure to mention the correct distributions to build for in the package submission KEYWORDS field. * Fedora.us is using a slightly older verion of the Guidelines than Warren's October proposal to this list. I would like to add the following table modified slightly from Warren's October proposal: Dist Tag for Normal Packages: Dist Tag for Normal Packages: 0.fdr.%{X}.%{disttag} Where %{X} is the vepoch and %{disttag} is a distribution tag from the following table: rh73 Red Hat Linux 7.3 [*] rh80 Red Hat Linux 8 [*] rh90 Red Hat Linux 9 [*] 1 Fedora Core 1 1.93 Fedora Core 1.93 Beta 1.94 Fedora Core 1.94 beta 2 Fedora Core 2 [*] These %{disttags} will be changed when fedora.us is merged into Fedora Extras. The new numbering scheme is 0.7.3, 0.8, and 0.9 respectively. * I'd like to remove the "Dist Tag for Red Hat Linux Betas" section as it appears to me that we are using the new numbering scheme for the Fedora Core Betas and there are no packages in the repository for the RHL Betas. _Guidelines: * I don't like the period between release tag and %{disttag} because it doesn't really serve its purpose as a separator (The period gets lost in the clutter of other periods before and after it.) The other traditional separator character in files '-' is already allocated in RPMs. So how about using a multi-character separator like '.0'? foobar-0.1-1.00.7.3.src.rpm For RH7.3 foobar-0.1-1.00.9.src.rpm For RH9 foobar-0.1-1.01.src.rpm For FC1 foobar-0.1-1.01.94.src.rpm For FC Beta 1.94 foobar-0.1-1.010.src.rpm For FC10 I would argue that this is not as ugly as '_', more readable than foobar-0.1-1.1.94.src.rpm, and still works for corner cases. -Toshio -- _______S________U________B________L________I________M________E_______ t o s h i o + t i k i - l o u n g e . c o m GA->ME 1999
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