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 -- best regards q#
