Changelog entries on older package

[Sergio Belkin]

2011/5/10 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>:
> On Tue, 10 May 2011 09:59:12 -0300
> Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Let's say that you make a RPM for fedora, and then you want to make
>> for epel5. Should I keep the fedora entries on changelog?
>
> I usually do, yes. It's history of the package...

Good point

>
>> Second question is somewhat silly, but I make it, just in case. Let's
>> say that you want to make a epe6 package too.
>>
>> I've read at
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches
>> that I should add set something as 1%{?dist}.1 on Release to make
>> older that epel6 package. Should I add the same for the changelog
>> entry on epel5 package?
>>
>> I mean:
>>
>> * Tue Mar 01 2011 Sergio Belkin <sebelk at fedoraproject.org> -
>> 1%{?dist}.1 ?
>
> No need.
>
> EPEL doesn't need you to preserve the upgrade path between major
> releases like Fedora does. AFAIK in RHEL upgrades between major
> releases are simply not supported. You are expected to re-install if
> you go from RHEL5 to RHEL6. So, no requirement that the RHEL5 version
> be less than the RHEL6 one. ;)
>
> Hopefully I understood your question...

you did

did that help?

Yes it did :)

>
> kevin





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