Naming packages when upstream uses dashes in the release version

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Wed May 6 08:35:53 UTC 2015


On 06/05/15 10:21, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:

> So, what would the rpm be named? foo-3.80.1-1.rpm or foo-3.80-1-1.rpm?
> Is the latter a possibility?

No. The NVR is by definition foo-version-release, a thing like 
foo-3.80-1-1.rpm is basically "illegal syntax".

Dashes in the name are OK since only the two rightmost dashes are parsed.

Cheers!

--alec


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