Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (60 mails)

["Michael Wolf" <maw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:32:51 +0100 (CET)
> "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> >    gnome-screen saver.
> >
> >       repo-oss:     2.22.2-24.1
> >       gnome.stable: 2.22.2-12.3

[...]

> Most likely yes.  The number after the "-" is build number, so the
> package from the repo-oss has been built a total of 23 times vs only 12
> for G:S. They are actually the same version, as to what causes one to
> be built more than the other I couldn't say but the chances are it's
> related to a dependency being rebuilt which then triggers it to be
> rebuilt.

Almost. :)  The numbers after the dash—the Release: field, one of the
ones you're generally supposed to leave alone in your .spec files—are
the checkin count and build number.  I don't know whether Release:'s
components are always increased by one, but in this case
gnome-screensaver was checked in up to 24 and up to 12 times, and
rebuilt once and up to thrice.  When you update a package's version,
both are reset.

The post version bump checkins are usually due to patches being added,
packaging fixes, etc.

(Note that this only applies to packages built by the build service.
Packages you create using rpmbuild or osc build won't respect that
convention, and other build systems do things differently as well.)


Michael.

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