Release bumps scripts caution

[Jesse Keating]

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On 8/18/10 11:49 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> Release bump scripts bumping release version numbers for prereleases should
> be handled more carefully or they can cause update problems later on.
> For example xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.1-0.20100705git37b348059.fc14 got bumped
> to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.1-1.20100705git37b348059.fc14 and then later
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.1-0.2.20100705git37b348059.fc14.
> 
> Perhaps release bump scripts should be adding something to the end of the
> string so as not to break prelease version numbers.
> 
> If they aren't already checking for version information after the dist-tag,
> that is another potential place for breakage, though not generally a problem
> for rawhide where mass rebuilds with scripts are typically done.

This likely happened because the original release string was non-conformant.

It should have originally been:

xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.1-0.1.20100705git37b348059.fc14

in which case the script would have bumped it to

xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.1-0.2.2010705git....

So in this case it appears it was a garbage in / garbage out issue.

The bump script lives in releng git repo (git.fedorahosted.org/releng if
anybody wants to hack on it.

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Jesse Keating
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