On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:28:19PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>
> > At least, put .1 before %{?dist}.
>
> This is not desirable, because doing so will result in the value of %{dist}
> between distributions not compared with each other, but rather the
> random "1", thus sidestepping the whole purpose of %{dist}.
>
> For example, foo-1.0-1.fc7 -> foo-1.0-1.1.fc8 compares "fc7" with "1", whereas
> foo-1.0-1.fc7 -> foo-1.0-1.fc8.1 compares "fc7" with "fc8" as intended.
Ok, but "1" is bigger than "fc", or not?
> While this hasn't in practice caused problems in devel, putting the .1
> after %{?dist} does not have this (or any other as far as I know) potential
> issue. On the other hand, putting it before %{dist} in a non-devel branch
> does cause upgrade path problems or needs for rebuilds for the sole purpose
> of EVR bumps, eg.
>
> Bad: foo-1.0-1.fc7 < foo-1.0-1.1.fc8 > foo-1.0-1.fc9
> Good: foo-1.0-1.fc7 < foo-1.0-1.fc8.1 < foo-1.0-1.fc9
We are bumping releases only in devel, so this situation shouldn't
happen.
I have a feeling that this was already discussed last massive rebuild,
maybe a year ago. What am I missing? :)
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