On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:58:08 -0700, AW (Adam) wrote:
> > 0.2.20110718525e3df.fc16
> > 0.2.2011072859fadcc.fc17
> >
> > Split up into the elements that RPM compares, these are:
> >
> > 0, 2, 20110718525, e, 3, df, fc, 16
> > 0, 2, 2011072859, fadcc, fc, 17
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > The third elements cause this evr-comparison to have a result which you
> > don't expect. Bump the second element "2" to "3" and you should be
> > fine :-).
>
> Well, in this case yes, but this problem could emerge again in a case
> where there's no version bump that 'should have' been carried out.
When would that be?
Packagers ought to bump the most-significant portion of %{release}
with every build where %{version} stays the same. In this case:
0.2.somelongstuff => 0.3.somesimilarlylongstuff
--
For the pre-release versioning scheme, it's not the left-most part
of %release, but the one right of the leading '0.', of course.
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