On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Fletch wrote: > Keep in mind that you will eventually be building 3 different RPMs > (trunk, branch and release). The leading 0 is critical for any > prerelease or "yum update" won't work. When the final release comes > out (squeezecenter-7.0-1), anyone using a nightly won't be able to > upgrade with yum since 20071220 is greater than 1. The .1 increment > after the 0 may never be needed, but I suggest you leave it in just in > case. I don't how it adds complexity. The purpose of the > increment is > if you device to do other kinds of prereleases (such as beta or rc) > that > have names that aren't naturally in ascending order, you can bump the > increment to 2 (and later 3) to make sure upgrades still work. > > It seems convoluted, but I didn't just makes this stuff up. This is > how every major RPM repository does it and it works pretty well.
What about using the SVN revision number? squeezecenter-7.0-r3456 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
