[Fedora-packaging] Upgrade path for Beta releases

[Panu Matilainen]

On 11/24/2013 07:52 PM, Mario Blättermann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> currently I'm working on Kbarcode, which is under review:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001799
> The current version is 3.0.0b3. No problem so far, but the next one will
> probably be the final 3.0.0. This way I don't get a proper upgrade path. Just
> tested with a dummy package versioned as 3.0.0b2 which I tried to update with
> 3.0.0:
>
> # rpm -Uvh mario-3.0.0-1.fc19.noarch.rpm
> Preparing...
> ################################# [100%]
>          package mario-3.0.0b3-1.fc19.noarch (which is newer than
> mario-3.0.0-1.fc19.noarch) is already installed
>
> What to do in this case? I would add
>
> Obsoletes: %{name} = 3.0.0b3
>
> Is this OK or have to do some other fixes? Maybe I could change the package
> version of the current beta release to 2.9.99?

Dealing with (non-numeric) pre-release versions is explained in the 
guidelines: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Package_Versioning

	- Panu -