[SlimDevices: Beta] New Nightly RPM Build for SqueezeCenter 7...

[Diranged]

dean blackketter;250402 Wrote: 
> On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Fletch wrote:
> > Keep in mind that you will eventually be building 3 different RPMs
> > (trunk, branch and release).  The leading 0 is critical for any
> > prerelease or "yum update" won't work.  When the final release comes
> > out (squeezecenter-7.0-1), anyone using a nightly won't be able to
> > upgrade with yum since 20071220 is greater than 1.  The .1 increment
> > after the 0 may never be needed, but I suggest you leave it in just
> in
> > case.  I don't how it adds complexity.  The purpose of the  
> > increment is
> > if you device to do other kinds of prereleases (such as beta or rc) 
> 
> > that
> > have names that aren't naturally in ascending order, you can bump
> the
> > increment to 2 (and later 3) to make sure upgrades still work.
> >
> > It seems convoluted, but I didn't just makes this stuff up.  This is
> > how every major RPM repository does it and it works pretty well.
> 
> What about using the SVN revision number?
> 
> squeezecenter-7.0-r3456

With that, what happens when we go to squeezecenter-7.1-r1000? or does
the svn revision number always increase, even if we change the main
version #? 

if it would work, i think thats a cleaner system...


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