Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote : > Working as fast as I can... here is the first draft of the Naming Policy > for Fedora Extras. Its not 100% complete yet, there are at least two > sections missing, but it covers the bases for most new packagers. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines > > Feedback is welcome, and encouraged. One thing : In the "Renaming a package" section, you put : Provides: foo Obsoletes: foo I'd prefer having those versionned to the version of the last known package released with that name, in case the package should be renamed back some day. Typically : You have foo = 1.0-1 that you want to rename to libfoo, then : Provides: foo = %{version}-%{release} Obsoletes: foo <= 1.0-1 Now, say the upstream project changes the name to "foo" for their 1.1 release... having those versions in will save a lot of trouble for upgrades and updates when changing back to the new upstream name. Thoughts? Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 Load : 0.18 0.32 0.27
