On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:49:00PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > It is hard to exmplain me what I'm rellay asking, so I'll maybe refer
> > to my rpm practice. When I was working on some .spec file I had put
> > fractional release like 0.1, so after rpmbuild I had package
> > 
> >     pkgname-$VERSION-0.1.$ARCH.rpm
> > 
> > In developing process I've dumped release many times (0.2, 0.3, ...) and
> > when packages was stable I can put release "1" and everyone was safe to
> > intall. Then again I can start developing process and bump it safely
> > with fractional release like 1.1 and so on (situation repeates)..
> > 
> > Can someone write me a good practice experience for it? Thanks in advance.
> 
> use the p* suffix numbers.
> 
> We often don't see it (personally, I just reinstall versions with the
> same name), but I have absolutely no qualm to having a port, when imported,
> have a pkgname-2.0p25  name.

And is it possible to have fractional p* suffix numbers? Does the v*
suffix support will be implemented?

References
 1. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-11/0138.html

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