Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (122 mails)

[Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Vladimir Nadvornik wrote:
> On pátek 30 listopad 2007, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>   
> > We have a product with versions like:
> >
> > 3.0.1-dev
> > 3.0.2-rc2
> > 3.0.2.5 (for a customer version)
> >
> > ...etc.
> >
> > As I'm packaging these as RPM's, we've been trying to do:
> >
> > %define major 3
> > %define minor 0
> > %define patchlevel 2
> > %define relnum rc2
> >
> >
> > ...but is that going to confuse rpm?  That is, is relnum going to be
> > compared numerically or as an ASCII string, or as something else?
> >
> > How can we ensure that dev < rc2 < 5 for relnum?  Do we need to come up
> > with a numbering scheme like "dev is 0-20, rc is 21-40, customer
> > versions are 41-60" etc?
> >
> >     
> Yes, converting everything to numbers is probably the most safe way.
> Some project use something like 3.0.99.2 for 3.1-RC2.
>   
How high can the numbers go?

Is a number like 8000 safe?


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