On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Michael Schwendt wrote:
I've got a package where upstream that has basically stopped doing releases, so I package git snapshots. However, the last release they did was a pre-release (0.8.0rc1). Any suggestions on what an appropriate Release tag should be in this case? Something like: 0.%{releasenum}.rc1git%{shortcommit}%{?dist}Version: 0.8.0 Release: 0.%{releasenum}.rc1%{?dist} That's the normal pre-release versioning scheme. Absolutely no need to insert the git snapshot stuff in there as well. In case you update to a future snapshot, it's possible to return to the snapshot versioning scheme. Afterall, %{releasenum} is most significant in both schemes, and if bumped correctly, anything right of it doesn't matter during RPM version comparison.
Sorry, I wasn't completely clear in what I'm doing. I'm updating to another git snapshot that is post 0.8.0rc1, so I *should* have the git hash in the version string, right? That's why I had come up with rc1git{hash}.
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