Hi Tom,
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:39 -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote:
Hi all,
We have for quite some time figured out what to do with pre-release
tags: 0.#.<tag>.#%{?dist}
But what to do with _post_-release tags?
From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines
"Post-release packages: Packages released after a "final" version. This
usually is due to a quick bugfix release, such as openssl-0.9.6b or
gkrellm-2.1.7a. In this case, the non-numeric characters are permitted
in the Version: field. "
Yeah, I saw that. It did not bother me while these thing were a single
letter like 'a' of 'b'. But when things start becomeing strings like
SP1_CP2 or GA_CP1 it made me wish to have them out of the version part.
Here is an example:
These upstream software releases its software from pre-release to final
like that:
1_1_0_BETA
1_1_0_BETA1
1_1_0_BETA2
1_1_0_CR1
1_1_0_CR2
1_1_0_GA
So far so good, we use pre-release tags for all but the last, which we
call just '1.1.0'.
After the final release (GA- General Availability), the process goes on.
After some fixes are added, they release:
1_1_0_CP1
1_1_0_CP2
1_1_0_CP3
So I thought we could just add one decimal point: .1, .2 and .3 for the
above.
Two methods come to mind:
1. Just increment the release and ignore the post release tagging, e.g.
foo-1.1.0-0.1.BETA
foo-1.1.0-0.2.BETA1
foo-1.1.0-0.3.BETA2
foo-1.1.0-0.4.CR1
foo-1.1.0-0.5.CR2
foo-1.1.0-1 (is actually GA)
foo-1.1.0-2 (is actually CP1)
foo-1.1.0-3 (is actually CP2)
foo-1.1.0-4 (is actually CP3)
foo-1.1.0-5 (is actually SP1)
foo-1.1.0-6 (is actually SP1_CP1)
The post-release information is important to the users, as it relates to
where bugs were fixed.
2. Use the post release tag like a CVS/SVN checkout tag:
foo-1.1.0-0.1.BETA
foo-1.1.0-0.2.BETA1
foo-1.1.0-0.3.BETA2
foo-1.1.0-0.4.CR1
foo-1.1.0-0.5.CR2
foo-1.1.0-1 (is actually GA)
foo-1.1.0-2.CP1
foo-1.1.0-3.CP2
foo-1.1.0-4.CP3
foo-1.1.0-5.SP1
foo-1.1.0-6.SP1_CP1
This one works.
I prefer option 1, as I suspect that users might care when something is
in beta/pre-release, but don't care at all about post-release levels as
long as it works. Either way works. The latter mechanism is a logical
extension of CVS/SVN release naming, but it introduces icky underscores
and makes the n-v-r longer (for what benefit)?
Yeah, the underscore is a drag, but at least it is in the same situation
as the ones from CVS tags.
Cheers,
Fernando
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