Drupal Versioning in EPEL

[Stephen John Smoogen]

2010/10/15 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:44:53PM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:15:50AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> > All in all, I agree with Eric's original assessment of "drupal6-flexifilter
>> > and the version to 1.2" as a very sane choice.
>>
>> Not if the main package is called "drupal" (IMO). Because then we'd be
>> again at 'needing new review on update' which you're warning about
>> below.
>>
>> So for the case of the current fedora drupal setup (with one package
>> called drupal and that shipping the current version) "drupal-cck-1.2"
>> would be the right thing to name that package (which means that we'd
>> need to epoch the old version out for the existing modules).
>>
> Correct.
>
>> > Traditionally in Fedora the latest package in a series has the package name
>> > unadorned with the version number and backwards compat packages have the
>> > version number added to the name.  One advantage of that is that you don't
>> > need a nw review whenever you want to update to a new version.
>>
>> [rereviews and support periods]
>>
>> I'm starting to think that it's probably best to leave things as they
>> are. Fedora has "drupal", EL gets drupal6.
>>
>> If leaving drupal6 out of EL-5 completely is an option I'd be happy to
>> create a 'backport' repository with the drupal 6 packages on
>> repos.fedorapeople.org. If fedora insight would need to be deployed on
>> RHEL5 then we could put the backports into the infrastructure repo.
>>
> This is also correct.  The question of pushing drupal6 packages to EL-5 is
> probably a matter of whether there's a demand for druapl6 running on RHEL5
> and whether anyone wants to take the time to package it.

Fedora Infrastructure has a need for drupal6. The new insight project
will be using drupal6 and the app servers are currently (and will be
for a while) running EL5.

> -Toshio
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