On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 05:39 -0500, James Olin Oden wrote: > On Apr 1, 2005 2:29 AM, Dionysos <dionysos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le Vendredi 01 Avril 2005 02:46, Brian Auld a Ãcrit : > > > I keep getting an error "error: line 19: Illegal char '-' in version: > > > Version: 0.9.6-pre4" when I run an rpmbuild command on my spec file. Am > > > I missing something obvious here. I can't seem to get version numbers > > > with hyphens to work. > Just as Alain said, rpm does not allow -'s in versions. What I would > do in this case, well have done, is use an _ in place of the - so your > version becomes: > > 0.9.6_pre4 > > rpm's version parsing code will parse it correctly (or as you might expect). However to prevent having to bump epoch when 0.9.6 becomes final the original poster might want to encapsulate the pre in the release ala: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines#head-c33853487ab884ae57c78f515ae1a77c6abc4d3f or think of someother naming scheme to allow pre/rc/test/whatever as the project uses to upgrade seemlessly to final releases. Paul _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
