On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> Please comment,
>
> gideon from cvs, i will try and upload once a week, compiled on 9.1 (runs in
> 9.2)
> http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/diego/kdevelop/
>
I don't install cvs snapshots that have a release number > 1mdk. Why?
Because either it's not going to upgrade well, or the maintainer is going
to have to epoch it, or I have to do some clean up manually later (ie
--force or --oldpackage).
Please see the section on the rpm howto on the wiki regarding prereleases,
the suggested method is something like
%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-0.%{IDENTIFIER}.mdk
where %{IDENTIFIER} is something like:
alpha1
beta2
cvsYYYYMMDD
pre3
rc1
(they would take precedence in that order, so hopefully cvs releases
aren't necessary after a pre).
samba3 has some macros to help with this (although they are quite complex,
but with 24 alphas, 3 betas and 4 rc's it did save a lot of time).
Regards,
Buchan
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