[Fedora-packaging] disttag
Carwyn Edwards
carwyn at carwyn.com
Fri Feb 25 03:52:37 UTC 2005
Dag Wieers wrote:
>The problem with such a scheme of course is that it requires a change to
>RPM (and all RPM related tools),
>
>
I know, I know - I'm more thinking ahead to when the tag mangling goes
away :-)
In the meantime, the current direction of the package naming looks good.
So far it's letting me define a local naming policy of:
%{name}-%{verison}-%{release}.%{local_release}.%{repo}
Where:
%{release}: Upstream release version if it exists otherwise |0| (zero).
%{local_release}: Local release version that adheres to the same rules
as the Fedora release field if %{release} is 0, otherwise use a single
integer.
%{repo}: Local repo tag.
I suspect that many Fedora users have their own local repos (maybe not
as big as FreshRPMs or Dag :-) ) and being able to define a naming
policy that works with upstream is a good thing. A common example of
what we need to do is to patch Fedora rpms with things that haven't been
integrated yet or to add some feature to the build options.
Carwyn
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