On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 11:15 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am 15.04.20 um 04:24 schrieb Paul Moore:
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:52 PM Paul Moore <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > There is another change in the kernel's specfile relating to where
> > the
> > %buildid is inserted into the version string.  Previously the
> > kernel
> > NVR would look like this:
> > 
> >   kernel-5.6.0-0.rc7.git1.1.BUILDID.fc33.src.rpm
> > 
> > ... but now it looks like this:
> > 
> >   kernel-5.7.0-0.rc1.20200414git8632e9b5645b.1.fc33.BUILDID.src.rpm
> > 
> > Any chance you can change the specfile so that the %buildid comes
> > before %dist as it did in the past?

Should be straight-forward, I'll take care of that today.

> 
> And how about making it a bit shorter? Until now I added
> ".vanilla.knurd.1" for my vanilla builds
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories ), but
> doing
> that now exceeds the 64 char limit now and thus results in build
> error.
> No big deal, I can remove the ".knurd", but I liked the old way more,
> as
> that made it more obvious *what* kind of kernel this is and *who*
> built it.
> 
> And is the "2020" really that important when we have 5.7-rc1 already?
> How about changing "20200414git" to "0414g" and get something like
> this
> (saves 7 chars):
> 
> kernel-5.7.0-0.rc1.0414g8632e9b5645b.1.fc33.BUILDID.src.rpm
> 
> Anyway, I don't care to much, just a suggestion, no need for a big
> bike
> shedding debate.
> 

So the current format follows the snapshot guidelines[0], but it *is*
very long. While it's nice to follow the guidelines, the package hasn't
been compliant before this so I suppose it's not terrible to bend the
rules.

I'm okay with this adjustment if folks are okay with treating the
guidelines like... guidelines.

[0] 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/#_snapshots

- Jeremy
_______________________________________________
kernel mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
Fedora Code of Conduct: 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]

Reply via email to