On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:19:54 Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:55 +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 22:15 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > On 07/20/2010 08:55 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> > > > Using names like f13, el5, and so forth would also keep dist-git
> > > > consistent with git branch naming conventions. If we were to do
> > > > something like that we might as well just use the value of %{dist}.
> > >
> > > That was going to be my next question, although that would bring back
> > > the "c" in fc13 and fc14 since that's what the dist value is. We could
> > > bite the bullet and change the dist value to remove the c, and just
> > > manually keep track of making sure that builds on older releases won't
> > > be "newer" than builds on the newer branches. not sure if we want to
> > > go through that pain at this point.
> >
> > Don't we have a (few) mass rebuilds in front of us before F-14 anyway?
> > gold and similar stuff? That would increase the R of N-V-R anyway, so we
> > could switch %{dist} from fc14 to f14 at the same time for probably the
> > majority of packages.
> >
> > Oh. Darn. We still need to make sure that *.fc12 and *.fc13 packages do
> > not have the same N-V-R modulo %{dist} as F14 has, until F13 is EOLed,
> > i.e. until F15 comes out. That still sounds ugly. Well, all of that is
> > ugly regarding the "c", whatever we do or do not do.
>
> Ugly potential fix for this ugly issue: Patch rpm and yum to compare
> N-V-R.fc13 exactly like N-V-R.f13, and carry that patch until F-15.
another less ugly (but still ugly) solution would be adding:
Obsoletes: N-V-R.fc13
Obsoletes: N-V-R.fc12
in koji automatically for the same NVR as the package has, but I don't know if
this would not make yum's depsolver cry
Michal
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