On Sat Dec 01, 2001 at 01:18:01PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > I was wondering about the naming conventions of RPM's on MDK. I am working > up a spec file to build Mosfet Liquid into an MDK rpm, but should the release > be a plain "1" or "1mdk"? I notice most Mandrake apps have the mdk appended > to the version, but should a third party packager use that too?
If you're making the spec specific to Mandrake, I would use the mdk extension. You'll notice that most other vendors (other than redhat) use an abbreviation of their product name for the extension, for example: Trustix: ?tr.src.rpm Caldera: ?.src.rpm Conectiva: ?cl.src.rpm Engarde: ?.src.rpm Immunix: ?_StackGuard.src.rpm SuSE: ?.src.rpm TurboLinux: ?.src.rpm Hmmm... actually, looking at that, it's about half split. Well, so much for that argument. =) I'd still say yes, use ?mdk if you're writing the spec for Mandrake. If you're trying to make it relatively generic and mean for it to run on other distros, don't use the mdk extension. -- vdanen (at) mandrakesoft.com, OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 14 days 8 hours 14 minutes.
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