Great. I just pushed onto the various trackers tracking the issue -- among which is the python tracker -- support for prerelease packages (...dev and ...dev-r77655 versioned packages) so they do not overwrite alphas, betas, or final -1 and above releases.
El Miércoles 11 Marzo 2009, Tarek Ziadé escribió: > Hi, > > Great work ! > > FYI it's on my pile in the bug tracker in Python. I'll try to work on > these before Pycon > > Also, note that I am planning to release Distutils as a standalone > package before Pycon; > since the current trunk targets Python 2.3 to 3.1 > > Regards > Tarek > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Gerry Reno <gr...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > > > > Hello, guys, > > > > I have fixed distutils (and setuptools remains working) with the attached > > patch. Now, RPMs will be built according to the Fedora Package Naming > > Guidelines: > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Non-Numeric_Vers > >ion_in_Release > > > > which I understand to be the most useful reference in terms of naming > > pre-release packages. This should work correctly in at least: > > > > - Fedora > > - RHEL > > - SUSE > > > > I urge you patch your python 2.4s and 2.5s and 2.6s and push this update > > to distributions. I have done that myself at my own repository. > > > > Now we can enjoy one more reason to build RPMs (and eggs! ... according > > to my workbench at http://yum.rudd-o.com/SCRIPTS/ -- feel free to pick > > its brains) DIRECTLY from the cheese shop, especially if you're using > > pip. > > > > Oh, I also have pip at my repo (cd ../RPMS/noarch in my workbench). > > > > See attached patch. I will log bugs where it corresponds too. > > -- > > > > Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rud...@rudd-o.com> > > Rudd-O.com - http://rudd-o.com/ > > GPG key ID 0xC8D28B92 at http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ > > > > Now playing, courtesy of Amarok: Aqua - Cartoon heroes > > Windows 95 is not a virus. Viruses actually do something. > > > > Hi Manuel, > > You worked on my problem! Great. > > So today what we have been doing to deal with the pre-release and > > lexical ordering problem involving pre-releases is this: > > We impose a restriction on how the pre-release is identified. So for > > example if you intend to end up with a final version-release of 5.0.0-1 > > and you want to first put out some betas or release candidates then we > > have to name them as, 5.0.0-0_beta1, or 5.0.0-0_rc1 and this is so that > > the lexical ordering for RPM will be correct. In other words you must > > put the pre-release designation into the 'release' part of > > VERSION-RELEASE. What we had seen developers doing previously was to > > name these as 5.0.0_beta1 or 5.0.0_rc1 (making the pre-release > > designation part of the 'version' string) which then did not work for the > > lexical ordering of the final release of 5.0.0-1 because 5.0.0 (version) > > was not lexically superior to 5.0.0_rc1. So we were able to solve this > > problem without any code changes to distutils. But this also presented a > > challenge for the other distribution targets such as 'sdist' because they > > were totally unaware of this 'version-release' combination and only knew > > about 'version'. So as a workaround we were doing this: > > # WORKAROUND > > # define both version AND release > > version='5.0.0' > > release='1' > > # combine them for all targets except 'bdist_rpm' > > if sys.argv[1] != 'bdist_rpm': > > version = version+'-'+release > > So this wasn't perfect but it actually worked quite well and we could get > > 'sdist' to work properly in conjunction with 'bdist_rpm'. > > So now with your patch all the targets should be able to set and use both > > 'version' and 'release' and we don't need our workaround and that will be > > great. > > > > Regards, > > Gerry -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rud...@rudd-o.com> Rudd-O.com - http://rudd-o.com/ GPG key ID 0xC8D28B92 at http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. -- Rebecca West
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