Note to users:

When the yum repo is ready, it'll be easy to upgrade using "yum update"
even though the name has changed.  For now, if you're using a SlimServer
RPM, you must upgrade using "rpm -Uvh ..." and NOT "rpm -ivh ...". 
Although the name has changed, the SlimServer and SqueezeCenter RPMs
cannot coexist.  Using -Uvh will properly remove SlimServer when
installing SqueezeCenter but -ivh will leave them both installed and
things will be broken.  There's nothing we can do about this - it's a
feature of rpm...

Matt,

I have two concerns:
1) I strongly disagree with the way you've changed the usage of the
Version and Release fields.  I've tried to be very careful about this
and I think it's important to use the scheme I described at
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=247564&postcount=1 (other
than the possible change from 7.0.0 to 7.0).  Similarly, the RPM
filename should follow the same {name}-{version}-{release}.noarch.rpm
convention.  Not doing this can cause lots of problems with upgrades,
especially when using yum.  Yum and RPM use these fields to decide
which version is newer.
2) Not as critical, but it's standard practice to use lower-case names
for RPMs.  I intentionally used squeezecenter for any file or path
names (including the RPM) and SqueezeCenter for human readable text. 
The deb is named slimserver (all lower case), I suspect for the same
reason.  I understand that this is a branding issue and we can change
it if we really need to.  However, most people expect things such as
the service name to match the RPM name, so there's a bunch of other
changes to make if this is really necessary.  I'd prefer not to since
lower-case is more conventional.

Can you post your version of the spec and the build script (or check
them into svn) so I can see what else has changed?


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