ovirt f17 beta repo

[Ryan Harper]

* Juan Hernandez <juan.hernandez at redhat.com> [2012-06-16 12:08]:
> On 06/15/2012 09:53 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
> >I saw a discussion on #ovirt about how the build system is supposed to
> >increment the _XXXX past the version but that's not happening.  Well,
> >newer rpms are now posted to the repo, but because the
> >version is the same expect for the githash, it won't upgrade.  Can we
> >get this fixed[1]?
> 
> In my opinion the version number of the RPM should not include that
> _XXXX suffix. We should build packages using the numbering schema
> recommended for snapshot and pre-release packages here:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Release_Tag
> 
> So the pre-release numbers should be something like this:
> 
> 3.1.0-0.1.20120615git0a4333
> 3.1.0-0.2.20120618git94a365
> ...
> 
> That way the day we do the release we can change to this numbering:
> 
> 3.1.0-1
> 3.1.0-2
> ...
> 
> And any release number will be greater than any pre-release number.

+1 

So, how do we enact this change?


> 
> >[root at ichigo-dom234 ~]# ls *.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-backend-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-config-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-genericapi-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-notification-service-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-restapi-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-setup-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-userportal-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch.rpm
> >[root at ichigo-dom234 ~]# rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
> >Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> >     package ovirt-engine-backend-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-backend-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-genericapi-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-genericapi-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-restapi-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-restapi-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-setup-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-setup-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-config-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-config-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-notification-service-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-notification-service-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-userportal-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-userportal-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >     package ovirt-engine-3.1.0_0001-0.gitf093e0.fc17.noarch (which is newer than ovirt-engine-3.1.0_0001-0.gitdd65f3.fc17.noarch) is already installed
> >
> >
> >1. I know I can --nodeps --force to get this to work.
> >
> 
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Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
ryanh at us.ibm.com