[Mageia-dev] Updates and 0 release

[Anssi Hannula]

On 26.07.2011 19:20, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 26/07/11 11:40 did gyre and gimble:
>> If the goal is to be sure that the software is still upgradable, the
>> whole %mkrel stuff should take care of that.
> 
> No it doesn't. That only works for one release assuming we do not use
> subrel with that release. Even with mkrel, we will instantly need to
> bump the cauldron package as soon as it's used for the first time.

If one does another update (i.e. adds subrel), it should mean that the
fixes/whatever have been done to the cauldron tree first and thus
cauldron has 1.0-2.mga1, while mga1 gets 1.0-1.1.mga1.

> We used to do 0 releases in Mandriva quite often, and I don't think this
> is necessarily problematic. If a package is a prerelease, the release
> itself will likely contain the word git or svn etc.
> 
> Col
> 
> 


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Anssi Hannula