On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 10:46 +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > Release tag problem/proposal
> > ============================
> >
> > Let's stop requiring Release bumps for each build. And let's put
> > an
> > additional tag into Release, like proposed in [4]:
> >
> > "Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag}"
> >
> > ... and let the build-system to put there an artificial (but
> > increasing for
> > subsequent build IDs) value.
>
> When looking into rpmautospec this was one of the idea we thought
> about. There
> are a few downsides to it that made us go in a different direction:
>
> - Relies on the build system and cannot be emulated locally (without
> access to
> it)
To be fair and considering that local builds with the rpmautospec macro
don't magically know about historical builds -- local or Koji -- this
scheme could be made to work locally in a similar way as ours: just
define the macro as %{nil} (or .1 or whatever) in redhat-rpm-config.
> - Conflicts wit the minor release bump field of the versioning
> schema:
>
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/#_more_complex_versioning
That's a more serious obstacle IMO. The way we overload the release
field in Fedora doesn't seem to work with many simple approaches.
Nils
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