On 10/02/11 02:46, Christopher Aillon wrote: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Non-Numeric_Version_in_Release > > So, this has been a problem for a while for me, but I'm just now getting > to bring it up... > > Basically, packages need to be able to require "xulrunner 2.0 beta 11" > but that's impossible with the current guidelines... > > Essentially, the number that gets incremented is _before_ the > pre-release, and unfortunately there's no time machine available to > determine how many increments will occur before the next tarball update, > so packages can't do > Require: xulrunner> 2.0-0.19.beta11.fc15 > Require: xulrunner< 2.0-0.22.beta12.fc15 > > since we might just go straight to 2.0-0.20.beta12.fc15 or we might need > 20 rebuilds of beta 11. And depending on the specific NVR is suboptimal > too. > > What I want to do for the XULRunner case specifically is change it to: > xulrunner-2.0-0.0.beta11_1.fc15 // first instance of beta 11 > xulrunner-2.0-0.0.beta11_2.fc15 // rebuild of beta 11 > xulrunner-2.0-0.0.beta11_3.fc15 // another rebuild > xulrunner-2.0-0.0.beta12_1.fc15 // first instance of beta 12 > xulrunner-2.0-0.0.scm20110209_1.fc15 // scm snap from Feb 9 2011 > xulrunner-2.0-0.1.beta13_1.fc15 // first instance of beta 13 > > So, the first 0 would signify a pre-release, the second 0 would be used > as sort of a "prerelease epoch" if needed as shown above, and it would > be followed by the pre-name, and then a release. Normally, a hyphen > would precede the rpm release of a tarball, but we can't have that here > due to the fact that we're putting some of the version information in > the release, so I think underscore works just as well here, and is > better than a dot. > > This would allow packages to do things like > Require: xulrunner>= 2.0-0.0.beta11 > Require: xulrunner<= 2.0-0.0.beta12 > > Thoughts? Another possibility, since you're looking only for equality comparisons and not greater or less than comparisons, might be to keep the rpm versioning as-is and use a virtual provide for your own purposes, e.g. Provides: xulrunner(version) = 2.0beta11 and in the dependent package(s): Requires: xulrunner(version) = 2.0beta11 Paul. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
