SPECS: makewhatis.spec (NEW) - added - linux port of FreeBSD makew...

[Tomasz Wittner]

On Sat 9. of July 2005 10:10, Patrys :: Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> Dnia 08-07-2005, pią o godzinie 23:02 +0200, Tomasz Wittner napisał(a):
> > On Fri 8. of July 2005 18:34, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > > On Friday 08 July 2005 19:17, twittner wrote:
> > > > +Version:       2005.07.08
> > > > +Release:       0.1
> > > > +License:       BSD
> > > uh! such versioning just begs for epoch bump afterwards!
> > > 
> > I can't imagine such situation (but I'm not brilliant ;) - version is 
taken 
> > from date '+%Y.%m.%d' . Please, provide an example when bumping epoch is 
> > necessary - show me output from:
> > 
> > rpmvercmp YYYY.MM.DD-relX yyyy.mm.dd-relY
> 
> We use versioning as follows:
> 
> (1.)0.20050708-0.1
> 
> Then reverting to another snapshot or changing the versioning scheme
> allows for smooth upgrades within the same epoch.
I really don't know what's it all about:
$ rpmvercmp 2005.07.08-1 2005.07.09-0.1
2005.07.08-1 < 2005.07.09-0.1
It works as expected without bumping epoch.
> For example if author
> decides to give the next release a number of 2.0 instead of a date.
>
I'm author of FreeBSD makewhatis Linux port and I don't plan to change 
versioning schema because it is my versioning schema, which is convient to 
me. I've taken makewhatis's sources from FreeBSD cvs (makewhatis.*, queue.h, 
stringlist.* and each exists only with its cvs revision), adapted and 
slightly refined (help printing, ac/am). I hope that everything was 
explained.

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Tomasz Wittner