[packman] confusion of rpm release numbers

Pascal Bleser pascal.bleser at opensuse.org
Sun Jun 5 10:50:47 CEST 2011


On 2011-05-31 21:36:47 (+0200), Norbert Meyer <norbert.meyer.d at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> some rpm release numbers would be "downgraded".
> example:
> -rw-r--r--  1 10000 10000 7458 2011-03-11 
> 05:40 ./packman/suse/openSUSE_11.3/Extra/i586/dhcpdetector-1.0b-1.pm.1.1.i586.rpm
> -rw-r--r--  1 10000 10000 6510 2010-12-05 
> 01:45 ./packman/suse/openSUSE_11.3/Extra/i586/dhcpdetector-1.0b-1.pm.2.1.i586.rpm
> 
> The new rpm has a lower release number (and the same version).
> Is it a mistake?

Hmm.... yeah, but we don't have complete control over those
release numbers, as part of it (what's behind the .pm.) is
managed automatically by the OBS.

> Some rpms changed the release number from 0.pm.x.y to x.z.
> example:
> ./packman/suse/openSUSE_11.3/Extra/i586/libgdal1-debugsource-1.8.0-1.pm.1.17.i586.rpm 
> and 
> ./packman/suse/openSUSE_11.3/Extra/i586/libgdal1-debugsource-1.8.0-1.19.i586.rpm
> Is it a mistake?

Yes, that was my bad, I forgot to apply a patch after our last
OBS upgrade. Fixed now.

cheers
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