Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-23 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Dec 22, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: What is the DISTURL then ? Home page of distro, or some ID-like thing ? No idea, ask Jeff. ;) RPMTAG_DISTURL is a never used implementation because the requestor (and the organizations the requestor particpated in, rpmfind.org and

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-22 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
2008/12/21 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz ar...@pld-linux.org On Saturday 20 of December 2008, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc. and commited it to CVS already. Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc. and commited it to CVS already. Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distribution version can be added. This will change EVR to EVRD which will be represented as

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-22 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
2008/12/22 Anders F Björklund a...@rpm5.org Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: So this DISTEPOCH would also work for OSVERSION on other systems ? Like darwin8 or 10.5osx or freebsd-7.0 or whatever it might be ? Yes, that's kinda the idea, except for DISTEPOCH would only contain the version, where

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: So this DISTEPOCH would also work for OSVERSION on other systems ? Like darwin8 or 10.5osx or freebsd-7.0 or whatever it might be ? Yes, that's kinda the idea, except for DISTEPOCH would only contain the version, where the DISTTAG would contain the short

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-22 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
2008/12/22 Anders F Björklund a...@rpm5.org Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: So this DISTEPOCH would also work for OSVERSION on other systems ? Like darwin8 or 10.5osx or freebsd-7.0 or whatever it might be ? Yes, that's kinda the idea, except for DISTEPOCH would only contain the version,

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: Well, for Mandriva 'Distribution:' would still be 'Mandriva Linux' while 'DistTag': would be 'mdv'. And elsewhere, they have Distribution = Unknown and Vendor = Fedora Project Oh, really? I thought they had more similar to us, ie. we have 'Vendor: Mandriva'

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Dec 21, 2008, at 2:24 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Saturday 20 of December 2008, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc. and commited it to CVS already. Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Dec 21, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Dec 21, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: Time to get out of the briar patch methinks. Since we're on the topic of EVR diddle-up's anyways ... There's a (fairly sensible imho) OpenPKG patch to treat '*' as a wildcard suffix for V

Re: new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-20 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Saturday 20 of December 2008, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc. and commited it to CVS already. Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distribution version can be added. This will change EVR to EVRD

new DISTEPOCH tag and cleaning of RELEASE tag polution

2008-12-19 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
I've modified DISTTAG tag to be specified in macros file just like DISTRIBUTION, VENDOR etc. and commited it to CVS already. Here's my next step, a DISTEPOCH tag where distribution version can be added. This will change EVR to EVRD which will be represented as