[Fedora-packaging] Upgrade path for Beta releases

[Mario Blättermann]

Am Sonntag, 24. November 2013, 20:09:17 schrieb 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
>

Thanks for the link! Now I'm using the following in my spec:

Release:        1.b3%{?dist}

The update with just 1{?dist} as usual can be installed properly.

Best Regards,
Mario