Roman Rakus wrote:
Hi,
There is a bug (#496780) requesting to use patchlevel of bash as part of
RPM version. So today bash-4.0-6.fc11.i586 would be
bash-4.0.16-6.fc11.i586. What do you think about it?
It's a bad idea.
c.f. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines#Package_Version
Rule of thumb: Try to let an rpm's version match with upstream's version
whenever possible, otherwise you're very likely to meet conflicts with
upstream's versioning.
Could it break anything?
Well, not actually break, but you (rsp. the Fedora package maintainer)
are not unlikely to hit NEVR issues with upstream.
E.g. with your proposal you would be in trouble if upstream decides to
release 4.0.1 - You have to bump epoch: etc.
My recommendation: Either ignore upstream's patch-level in an rpm's NEVR
and use your own NEVR scheme, or try to incorporate upstream's
"patch-levels" into an rpm's %release, if you "feel like it".
I would not do so.
Ralf
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