pre-release kernel release tag

Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com
Thu Aug 9 20:59:49 UTC 2007


I propose we change the release format for snapshot kernels.
Now we get e.g.:

kernel-2.6.23-0.89.rc2.git2.fc8

and I suggest instead:

kernel-2.6.23-0.rc2.git2.89.fc8

That is, put the spec file version number last, not first.  This way, when
we forget to reset fedora_cvs_origin after a rebase, we don't have to wait
for the next kernel version to do it, just the next gitN.

We can't make this change until 2.6.23 sails, since for rpm version
comparison rc* is < any [0-9].


--- kernel.spec	09 Aug 2007 13:45:09 -0700	1.72
+++ kernel.spec	09 Aug 2007 13:46:42 -0700	
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel (the core of t
 %define rctag .rc0
 %endif
 %endif
-%define pkg_release 0.%{fedora_build}%{?rctag}%{?gittag}%{?buildid}%{?dist}
+%define pkg_release 0%{?rctag}%{?gittag}.%{fedora_build}%{?buildid}%{?dist}
 %endif
 
 # The kernel tarball/base version




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