Is it possible to set release to 0?  Never tried it and never seen it
in practice.

I guess I could try that...

Cheers,

Bernard

On 4/27/07, Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bernard Li wrote:
> > Dear all:
> >
> > Currently if we are working on say version 3.9.0 and we want to build
> > development version (i.e. from SVN/nightly), we would tag the SVN
> > revision number and our names to the RPMs built, eg. 3.9.0r4002_bli.
> >
> > This causes an issue when the actual release comes about (3.9.0), you
> > will not be able to upgrade via RPM since 3.9.0r4002_bli is > 3.9.0.
> >
> > Brian suggested that we do not increment the version until it is ready
> > for release, eg. if we are working on 3.9.1 release, then we will
> > build development releases as 3.9.0rXXXX until 3.9.1 is ready to be
> > tagged.
> >
> > However, this will not work with 3.9.0, since we cannot go "back" as
> > 3.8.x has a totally different meaning (even minor version is stable,
> > odd minor version is unstable).
> >
> > Does anybody else have any comments/suggestions regarding this issue?
> >
> > I would like to avoid using RPM's epoch if at all possible...
>
> What about using for example:
>
> VERSION = 3.9.1-0_r4034_arighi
>                ^^
>
> Then, when 3.9.1 comes out rpm will automatically use 3.9.1-1 and it'll
> be able to upgrade the 3.9.1-0_r4034_arighi.
>
> -Andrea
>

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