> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Wojciech Kazubski<w...@o2.pl> wrote: > > > > Why libgeda and libgeda-devel packages have old style version number > > (20090830) instead of new 1.5.4? > > > > Wojciech > > > > I did a mistake in the past and now I'm paying the price :) > > Well the mistake was that before gEDA's stable release was made > public, gEDA snapshots are versioned as their date of release. For > Fedora packages, I opted for the same style, instead of 0.20090830 i.e > 0.20090830 < 20090830 > > But since I didn't do it, now with the new gEDA versions 1.* > 20090830 > 1* > > which means YUM will not update to the stable release. > > This is case one. > > Case two is geda-* subpackages are bundled into a big tarball with a > new name "gEDA-gaf". That said, gEDA-gaf sub packages should > replace(obsoletes) all the current fedora packages flawlessly. My new > set of gEDA-gaf packages does this job and at the same time opt for > the new version naming 1.*. But namings for libgeda and libgeda-devel > remained the same. > > I have the intention to update the fedora stable repositories (F-10 > and F-11) when 1.6 comes out (assuming gEDA-gaf passes fedora package > review). This is a very delicate matter and I'm not taking the risks > to create a RPM dependency help when the user will do "yum update". > > Hence, I kept the old version naming for libgeda and libgeda-devel so > that 20081230 < 20090830 for example. At least for now. Once gEDA-gaf > fedora packages obsoletes the fedora geda-* packages, I will use a new > Epoch for libgeda and libgeda-devel so that both will be versionned to > 1.* later on. > > I want to do things step by step and avoid breakage at all cost which > might eat my time. > > I hope I answered you. > > Chitlesh > OK. I understand this.
BTW, source package http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/gEDA/11/gEDA-gaf-1.5.4-1.fc11.src.rpm seems to be corrupted (probably truncated) and does not install correctly. Wojciech _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user