Drupal Versioning in EPEL

[Jon Ciesla]

Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:43, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
>   
>> Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
>>     
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>>> On 10/15/2010 06:02 AM, Sven Lankes wrote:
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>>>> Fedora has a bunch of drupal-modules called drupal-modulename with a
>>>> version of 6.x-1.2 (which is what upstream uses to show that this is for
>>>> the drupal 6 range).
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I was a bit over-cautious when I saw the "X" in the versioning.  I spoke
>>> to several folks over in #fedora-devel which raised the concern that the
>>> X might have problems down the road if they ever changed the X to a
>>> number.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Eric suggests in the review [1] that I call the package
>>>> drupal6-flexinode-1.2 instead of drupal-flexinode-6.x-1.2 - but that
>>>> name would only work for EPEL as the other drupal modules which are
>>>> already in Fedora are following the 6.x-1.2 naming scheme.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> If this is already being done on other packages (I didn't look) then
>>> perhaps keeping the same throughout would be a good thing.
>>>
>>> Personally I'm not a fan of maintaining the same package with different
>>> names.  Just doesn't feel like a good solution to me.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I'm not very experienced wrt. EPEL packaging so I may be missing best
>>>> practices here but having a completely separate drupal stack for EPEL
>>>> (with two reviews per package ...) feels very wrong to me.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure how feasible it is wrt. the progress of fedora insight but I'd
>>>> think that the best way forward would be to leave EL-5 on Drupal 5,
>>>> update the drupal package in EL-6 to Drupal 6.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642856
>>>> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569833
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> - --Eric
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>> Personally, I'd keep to the same conventions regarding X as in existing
>> modules.
>>     
>
> I'm good with that.  I've updated the review ticket appropriately.
>
>   
>> WRT separate drupal stacks, with two reviews per package, is a necessary
>> evil, at least for EL-5.  I'm also wondering if we should put the drupal 5
>> stack in EL-6 as well as the drupal6 stack.  It's not simply the same
>> package with different names, it's got entirely different Requires and file
>> placement to allow it to be installed in parallel, allowing Enterprise users
>> to upgrade at their own pace, which is more in keeping with the mission of
>> RHEL/CentOS/EPEL, as opposed to Fedora, where you can say "Ok, as of F-XX,
>> you're upgrading your Drupal install to Drupal 7.  Period."
>>     
>
> Probably not a bad idea.  The package should be changed to
> drupal6-flexifilter, though.
>
>   
Or, if you prefer, a second version submitted, so you have one for 
drupal 5, and one for drupal 6.  If you only need it for 6, then just 
rename, alter paths, Reqs, etc.
>> Good to ask the question, though, Sven, and I totally get where you're
>> coming from.
>>
>> -J
>>     
>
> --Eric
>   


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