2011/4/2 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx>: > On 04/02/2011 05:02 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> Hi fedora community, >> >> I maintain ftop package. I've made fedora and el6 packages. Taking >> account different requirements for epel5 packages, now I'd want to >> make an el el5 package. It's not clear what i should do. >> >> 1. If I create an new spec with conditionals touch fedora packages and >> el6 but does make sense increase EVR only for it? > > Nope (in case you mean bumping the EVR for EL6 and Fedora packages). > >> 2. If I create a modified spec for el5, should I increase the EVR? Can >> a package have a different EVR of el6 and fedora ones? Or can an el5 >> package has the same EVR that el6 and fedora ones but different >> content? > > Take the EL6 spec, make necessary changes to it for EL5, and bump EVR of > the EL5 package by adding a digit *after* the disttag, that way it won't > cause problems when upgrading from EL5 to EL6. Then at the next EL6 > package release, fold in the changes made to the EL5 specfile if you > like and from there on you can use the same specfile for EL5 and EL6. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Thanks Ville is just what I'm looking for! -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com LPIC-2 Certified - http://www.lpi.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
