[Fedora-packaging] Release Tag for Pre-release *and* Snapshot

[Scott Talbert]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>> I've got a package where upstream that has basically stopped doing
>> releases, so I package git snapshots.  However, the last release they did
>> was a pre-release (0.8.0rc1).  Any suggestions on what an appropriate
>> Release tag should be in this case?
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> 0.%{releasenum}.rc1git%{shortcommit}%{?dist}
>
> Version: 0.8.0
> Release: 0.%{releasenum}.rc1%{?dist}
>
> That's the normal pre-release versioning scheme.
>
> Absolutely no need to insert the git snapshot stuff in there as well.
>
> In case you update to a future snapshot, it's possible to return to the
> snapshot versioning scheme. Afterall, %{releasenum} is most significant
> in both schemes, and if bumped correctly, anything right of it doesn't
> matter during RPM version comparison.

Sorry, I wasn't completely clear in what I'm doing.  I'm updating to 
another git snapshot that is post 0.8.0rc1, so I *should* have the git 
hash in the version string, right?  That's why I had come up with 
rc1git{hash}.

Scott