[ovirt-devel] [vdsm] about package release number

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Francesco Romani <fromani at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it was recently pointed out that Vdsm 4.18.3 rpms have -0 release number, like in
>
> rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/vdsm-4.18.3-0.fc23.x86_64.rpm
>
> But this is OK only for packages built from master. From stable branch and official releases,
> we should have something like
>
> rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/vdsm-4.18.3-1.c2e510e.fc23.x86_64.rpm
>
> or perhaps just
>
> rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/vdsm-4.18.3-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm

If we want to follow the fedora packaging guidelines ([1]), There are
three cases in which non-numeric versions occur in the Release field:
- Snapshot packages
- Pre-release packages
- Post-release packages

So, being this a release candidate, in theory we should avoid
including a checkout tag in the package name.
It's instead a good practice for snapshot builds.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#NonNumericRelease

> To quickly unblock 4.0, I posted
>
> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/59337/ - please consider this a quick fix and review as such
>
> To properly address the versioning, I posted my take here
>
> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/topic:new-release
>
> This is not marked a draft, yet I posted mostly as discussion material, I'm not confident
> this is really (or completely) the proper way to go.
>
> Please share your thoughts.
>
> --
> Francesco Romani
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