Auto rebuild release bump issue

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 15:49:41 UTC 2008


On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:46:35 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:38:17 +0000 (UTC), Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > Michael Schwendt <mschwendt <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > Also added in cvs is a fallback, where a release string that doesn't
> > > match at all is tried to be bumped at the very right, and if that
> > > is not possible, ".1" is appended.
> > 
> > Are you sure you want to autobump Release entries which don't match any of the 
> > templates in the guidelines? They could contain really anything, e.g. hardcoded 
> > disttags, which "bumping at the very right" could accidentally turn from .fc9 
> > into .fc10, or some other unforeseeable weird stuff.
> 
> 1) Hardcoded disttags are not permitted in Fedora, afaik.

Btw, currently the script tries to match "dot number" and therefore would
bump ".fc9" to ".fc9.1" instead.




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