On Sunday 26 July 2009 07:50:14 pm Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 07/26/2009 01:52 PM, Conrad Meyer wrote: > > On Sunday 26 July 2009 01:47:55 pm Richard Fearn wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've just had an EL-5 branch created for my disktype[1] package. The > >> new branch is a copy of the devel branch, so the NVR is currently > >> disktype-9-5. > >> > >> Should I build the package as-is (so the first EPEL version is 9-5), > >> or clear the changelog and start from 9-1 again for the EL-5 branch? > >> > >> I looked on a few pages[2][3][4] for information on this, but couldn't > >> see anything. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Rich > >> > >> [1]: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/disktype > >> [2]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_CVS_FAQ_for_package_maintainers > >> [3]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure > >> [4]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies > > > > There is nothing wrong with starting at 9-5. > > Using the disttag can make it clearer that a package comes from epel as > opposed to someone installing the Fedora package onto an EL-5 system and > expecting it to work. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/DistTag > -Toshio Er, I am not saying "don't use dist", just that starting at 5%{?dist} instead of 1%{?dist} is completely fine. Regards, -- Conrad Meyer <cemeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
