On 26.07.2011 19:20, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 26/07/11 11:40 did gyre and gimble: >> If the goal is to be sure that the software is still upgradable, the >> whole %mkrel stuff should take care of that. > > No it doesn't. That only works for one release assuming we do not use > subrel with that release. Even with mkrel, we will instantly need to > bump the cauldron package as soon as it's used for the first time.
If one does another update (i.e. adds subrel), it should mean that the fixes/whatever have been done to the cauldron tree first and thus cauldron has 1.0-2.mga1, while mga1 gets 1.0-1.1.mga1. > We used to do 0 releases in Mandriva quite often, and I don't think this > is necessarily problematic. If a package is a prerelease, the release > itself will likely contain the word git or svn etc. > > Col > > -- Anssi Hannula