Drupal Versioning in EPEL

[Eric "Sparks" Christensen]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 13:28, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
> Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 13:09, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:01, Sven Lankes <sven at lank.es> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:47:49AM -0400, Eric Sparks Christensen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And it's now basically decided that I need to take the X out of the
>>>>>>>> EVR for all modules, and transtion drupal* to drupal6* in rawhide, and
>>>>>>>> to drupal5* in EL-5? If this is correct, I'll get on it this week.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unless we want to suggest a change to the FPC which I wouldn't know how
>>>>>>> to justify.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll change my pending review request to use drupal6* and only request
>>>>>>> branches for F15 and EL.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> In my opinion this needs to happen.  Let's put together a request for
>>>>>> the FPC or whoever to evaluate.  This shouldn't be a big deal and we
>>>>>> are not going to get anywhere just going back and forth here.
>>>>>> Clearly there is a need here and we can make this happen sooner.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Correct me if I'm wrong but I feel that we have now agreed on:
>>>>>
>>>>>  1. rename drupal to drupal6 in F15+
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Why are we waiting for F15?  Why can't this be done for F14 and
>>>> previous?  The update would essentially be a package replacement
>>>> without any configuration change; a trivial change for sysadmins.
>>>>
>>>> --Eric
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>>> It can, but what would the benefit be to those sysadmins?
>>>
>>> -J
>>>
>>
>> I just thought it would be easier to maintain the package and it would
>> allow those using versions of Fedora <F15 to have access to the
>> modules.
>>
>> --Eric
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> How so?  All currently supported Fedora releases have drupal==6.  If we
> rename everything to drupal6 in rawhide, this won't change.  It's not
> like we're creating a drupal5.  Maybe I'm not understanding what you
> mean, exactly.
>
> -J

If the drupal6 modules require drupal6 then those modules won't be
available to those running drupal 6.x because it is a different
package name.  So you'll either have to make those modules require
either drupal6 or drupal 6.x or you'll have to make a drupal6 module
and a drupal 6.x module.

--Eric