[Mageia-dev] Updates and 0 release

Tue Jul 26 13:22:53 CEST 2011

Le 26/07/2011 12:40, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Hi,
+>
+> while trying to work on the queue of update needing a push, I noticed
+> that almost all of them use a "Release: 0".
+>
+> Since this has a specific meaning ( ie, used for pre release, or svn
+> snapshot ), using this for updates is quite confusing, and I do not see
+> the reason for that.
+
+When it is used for prerelease (mainly in cauldron), the release 0 is 
+usually associated with a svn or git rev. number, or date, or alpha, 
+beta ... so it is not so much confusing with this use in update for 
+official release.
+
+>
+> If the goal is to be sure that the software is still upgradable, the
+> whole %mkrel stuff should take care of that. And if not, we can rebuild
+> in cauldron to increase the release.
+
+We regularly used release 0 and subrel 1 in Mdv for the packages updated 
+with the same version in official releases and in cooker (firefox, 
+thunderbird, java-1.6.0-sun, ...), to be sure that the package from the 
+official release will be updated by a update to the devel release or the 
+next official release.
+
+we often used in such packages:
+%if %mandriva_branch == Cooker
+# Cooker
+%define release %mkrel 1
+%else
+# Old distros
+%define subrel 1
+%define release %mkrel 0
+%endif
+
+regards,
+Luc
+