Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (115 mails)

[R Hannes Beinert <argovela@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

I was curious if there is any standard (ad hoc, or otherwise) for
package naming, and the spec file version/release information
which includes provisions for (1) tagging the provenance of an
rpm to a particular packager/repo, and (2) still allows for
rpm-based installers to understand the proper package relationships.

Specifically, my understanding of existing packging conventions (in
part derived from practice, and in part derived from the SuSE Package
Conventions document) a package consists of:

     <packagename>-<version>-<release>.<arch>.rpm

where,

     <version> ::= <major version>.<minor version>{.<other stuff>}
     <release> ::= <release number>[.<release version>]

and, it seems by convention,

     <major version>
     <minor version>
     <release number>
<release version>
     are numbers.


	
		
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