[Fedora-packaging] Re: Build Error (Job 11111): dejavu-fonts-2_7_0-0_16_943~20060614svn_fc6 on fedora-development-extras

[Rex Dieter]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le vendredi 16 juin 2006 à 13:21 -0500, Rex Dieter a écrit :
>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>
>>> If the buildsys does not like ~, what separator could I use ?
>>> I need to construct an alphatag out of svn number, svn date, svn string
>>>
>>> For obvious reasons :
>>> - svn number and svn date must be separated,
>>> - the separator must be part of the base latin block
>>> - - is taken as rpm field separator
>>> - . is taken as in-field separator
>> Despite your reservation about '.', that's probably the best option.
> 
> It seems plus (+) works, is easy to type and read, and is not already
> taken (so no one will accuse me of breaking alphatag in multiple
> fields).
> 
> I now christen 'svnnumber'+'svndate'svn my official svn alphatag.
> 
> If no one objects and I remember how I'll put it in the wiki too.

Yuck, why not try to stuff any/all of !@#%$^*() into the Release tag too 
while you're at it... (:

-- Rex