Hi, Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I did not find it using G**gle... So here we go: I would like to use semantic versioning (see http://semver.org/) in a package. One particular definition in semantic versioning is that of a "pre-release". Quoting from its web page: 9. A pre-release version MAY be denoted by appending a hyphen and a series of dot separated identifiers immediately following the patch version. Identifiers MUST comprise only ASCII alphanumerics and hyphen [0-9A-Za-z-]. Identifiers MUST NOT be empty. Numeric identifiers MUST NOT include leading zeroes. Pre-release versions have a lower precedence than the associated normal version. A pre-release version indicates that the version is unstable and might not satisfy the intended compatibility requirements as denoted by its associated normal version. Examples: 1.0.0-alpha, 1.0.0-alpha.1, 1.0.0-0.3.7, 1.0.0-x.7.z.92. According to this definition, a pre-version "1.2.3-beta.1" is *older* than the normal version "1.2.3". However, RPM considers that pre-version to be *younger* than the normal version. RPM instead supports the tilde to denote pre-versions, so "1.2.3~beta.1" is considered older than "1.2.3". My questions are: 1. Is there support in RPM today, for correctly treating pre-versions according to the semantic versioning definition? 2. If not, can it be added, maybe with an option? Andy _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
