repository- & disttag order

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Fri Jan 9 04:02:49 UTC 2004


Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 08:17, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
>>warren at togami.com (Warren Togami) writes:
>>
>>>** Fully numeric disstags have been favored by RH and fedora.us leadership
>>>   in past discussions, but this requires more discussion.
>>>...
>>>** reptag will be necessary for all other repositories.  The current
>>>   proposal is attaching it at the end of %{release}.
>>
>>reptag at the end causes ambiguities. You can not say if '1.1.1.foo'
>>means versions 1.1 for FC1, or if it means version 1 for FC1.1.
>>
>>repotag before disttag is the only way which makes sense; see
>>
>>  http://www.fedora.us/pipermail/fedora-devel/2003-December/002478.html
> 
> 
> You're right. Sounds good. And additionally it makes numeric
> distribution tags readable (not just a number amongst other numbers but
> separated from the rest by the repository tag - the "and which of these
> numbers is the disttag?" question was one of my dislikes of the purely
> numeric scheme). 
> 
> -- Fernando

This is assuming we accept reptag in all Core and Extras packages. 
Previous discussions have had reptag not included in FC and FE, but 
necessary for all other repositories.





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