[Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron core/release kphotoalbum-0-1.mga2

[Jani Välimaa]

2011/9/10 Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com>:
> 2011/9/10 Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org>:
>> Le Samedi 10 Septembre 2011 20:24:25 Jani Välimaa a écrit :
>> [...]
>>> > version here is 1.0 & the Release is set to %mkrel -c git %gitdate
>>>
>>> What if you need to do some (minor) changes? Which part of release do
>>> you bump when using the same git release?
>>>
>>> For example '%mkrel -c git%{gitdate} %{rel}' would be better as then
>>> there are "release" part which you can bump after changes. My example
>>> expands to something like 0.git20110908.1.mga2..
>> Sure,
>> you can of course add a %rel tag after if you want to do some changes
>> since 0.git20110908.1.mga2 is > 0.git20110908.mga2
>>
>
> Yes, I know but I meant it should be there from the start, for
> consistency. IMHO it should be noted somewhere in release tag that
> it's the first release, even in this "special" case. And like it's
> done in normal release tag.
>

Also, I have one example why the %rel part should be there from the start.

What if we have some tool (like 'mdvsys update') which bumps release
(semi-)automatically? If there's no %rel part it probably bumps the
%gitdate part which is not intended.