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Re: [PATCH] rpmbuild doesn't like '-' in version strings

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 16, 2006, 09:15 UTC
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John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com> writes:
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>> Of course you can keep a patch with the sed -e 's/-/_/' in
>> GIT-VERSION-GEN as Linus suggested in your development branch.
>>
> Thats basically all I'm looking for.   I agree that is only necessary
> to fix the "make rpm" target.
> Further changes are not strictly necessary.   I don't understand why
> it would only be useful to me?

OK, if somebody is RPM savvy enough to do his own binary RPM and install it, he would know how to override the downgrade guard the binary package manager would give him, so it probably is not such a big deal. A patch to do "sed -e 's/-/./g'" will be pushed out in the "master" branch shortly.

I hope if we later see complains on the list that some RPM cut from an interim snapshot would not install, somebody would take time to answer such complaints, pretty please?

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Message 11 of 11 in “rpmbuild doesn't like '-' in version strings”
  1. rpmbuild doesn't like '-' in version stringsJohn Ellson, Dec 30, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2006
  3. Andreas EricssonJan 7, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 7, 2006
  5. Ryan AndersonJan 7, 2006
  6. John EllsonJan 14, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsJan 14, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2006
  9. John EllsonJan 14, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2006

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