alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

[Adam Tkac]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:49:37AM -0600, Jima wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Adam Tkac wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:40:52PM +0100, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>>> On a separate unrelated note, please do not append "a" to the RPM Version
>>> field for alphas.  As far as RPM is concerned "9.5.0a5" > "9.5.0" which
>>> means you have to keep changing the epoch [31!  wow :-(] The correct way is
>>> to have a 0.a. or similar in the Release field.
>>>
>>> This is documented in the packaging guidelines:
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#PreReleasePackages
>>
>> That package was released before I read policy :) Now all is quite
>> correct (9.5.0-18.a7)
>
>  I was going to go off on you for using 8.5.0a5 in the %version, but then I 
> checked what was actually on my nameserver and saw you didn't flub that up. 
> :-)
>  However, a minor point to note in the future is that it really ought to be 
> 9.5.0-0.18.a7, as per:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-d97a3f40b6dd9d2288206ac9bd8f1bf9b791b22a
>
>  ...but I'll let you get by with a light slap on the wrist. ;-)
>
>      Jima

It means raise epoch. And it could be danger because epoch could be
int8_t type (not sure :) ) and it could cause overflow when We hit
epoch 128 :)

Adam

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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.