Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (379 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:02:02PM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:52:59AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:56:51AM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 07:26:21PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > But, for some library work, we will need to rebuild packages that are
> > > > identical to the 11.4 version, and I will use links, but how do you
> > > > create a "source link" that will keep the version number greater, than
> > > > the 11.4 one?
> > >
> > > You mean the release number? If it's a source link, the built
> > > packages will always have a bigger release number.
> >
> > Yes, the release number will always be the same, that's easy, it's the
> > "build number" that is the issue.  When linking a new package into
> > tumbleweed, the build number starts over and I know of no way to have it
> > start at a higher number other than to manually rebuild it multiple
> > times :(
>
> Hmm, the "checkin counter" of the resulting rpm (i.e. the first
> part of the release number) should be bigger than the 11.4 one.
> Do you have an example where this isn't the case?

I think one issue is that Greg not just links to openSUSE:Factory,
but also to other devel projects.

Ciao, Marcus
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