On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:49:37AM -0600, Jima wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Adam Tkac wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:40:52PM +0100, Christopher Aillon wrote: >>> On a separate unrelated note, please do not append "a" to the RPM Version >>> field for alphas. As far as RPM is concerned "9.5.0a5" > "9.5.0" which >>> means you have to keep changing the epoch [31! wow :-(] The correct way is >>> to have a 0.a. or similar in the Release field. >>> >>> This is documented in the packaging guidelines: >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#PreReleasePackages >> >> That package was released before I read policy :) Now all is quite >> correct (9.5.0-18.a7) > > I was going to go off on you for using 8.5.0a5 in the %version, but then I > checked what was actually on my nameserver and saw you didn't flub that up. > :-) > However, a minor point to note in the future is that it really ought to be > 9.5.0-0.18.a7, as per: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-d97a3f40b6dd9d2288206ac9bd8f1bf9b791b22a > > ...but I'll let you get by with a light slap on the wrist. ;-) > > Jima It means raise epoch. And it could be danger because epoch could be int8_t type (not sure :) ) and it could cause overflow when We hit epoch 128 :) Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
