On 15 January 2011 12:08, Remy CLOUARD <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I just imported the RPM Spec File Syntax page in the wiki. > > It’s located here: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax > > Please review this page as it’s one of the most important one for the > beginning of the mentoring process, with the RPM Howto page (yet to be > imported). > > Some comments on this page: > - Patch naming: > > I’m not sure we should go that far for the patch naming policy, and in > practice it’s not what I’ve seen up till now. > > Here’s a proposal: > Patches must be named in a very explicit manner to make it very clear to > what version it was originally applied. To that end, a patch needs to > follow the convention of > [package_name]-[version]-[description].patch: > > * [package_name] is the name of the package it applies against, such > as 'shadow-utils' or 'gnupg' > * [version] is the version of the program this patch was developed > against, such as 1.0. The name of the patch should not change,
I don't agree, if you rediff the patch against version 2.0 the the version in the patch name should change; one reason is, it can't be applied to version 1.0 any more without restoring the old patch from an older SVN rev. or rediffing it again. [...] > -- > Rémy CLOUARD > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > -- Ahmad Samir
