[elrepo-devel] Naming guidelines

[Nikolay Ulyanitsky]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 02:49, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
> Where module version information is available, we use it and then
> increment the release as appropriate. An example of this would be my
> (broken) kmod-sis190-1.3-1.el5.elrepo package using backported kernel
> code labelled as version 1.3 in the code, or for kmod-alsa-1.0.20-1
> based on ALSA 1.0.20.

The problem is that the same kernel module can have one version between
2.6.18 ... 2.6.32, but differ significantly.

> We did make some mistakes early on by versioning some packages starting
> at 1.0-1 and incrementing through 1.1-1 etc (eg, coretemp, it87). After
> realising our mistakes we decided not to go back and correct something
> that's not currently causing a problem as the fix (introducing an epoch)
> might be considered worse than the mistake.

+1

> We also discussed at length whether the package version-release should
> contain any information to indicate which kernel the package was built
> against (eg, a package built against the 5.3 release kernel-2.6.18-128
> might be named foo-0.0-1.el5.3.elrepo or foo-0.0-1.128.el5.elrepo) but
> we decided against this as it was felt this information could be
> misinterpreted and/or cause confusion.

+1


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With best regards,
Nikolay Ulyanitsky
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