Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (60 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday, 2008-12-10 at 09:51 -0600, Michael Wolf wrote:

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

:-)

Well, guys, thanks for the technical information, but what I mean is 
rather that a user trying to update to gnome:stable... well, YaST 
will update very little, because many packages are listed as older or the 
same.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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