Hi Tom, On 13/12/2007, Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm about to send out an announcement to the users and announcement lists > but though I would send it here first to allow any dissenting voices to be > heard. >
Thanks very much for doing this, it is very helpful. However, I think I spot an inconsistency below: [snip] > a) When a release is initially uploaded, a tarball for each component will > be placed in a 'base' sub-directory. These tarballs will be in bz2 > compressed format and will also be present in the release > directory. > > b) The RPM released by shorewall.net will have release == '0base' (e.g., > shorewall-common-4.0.7-0base.noarch.rpm). > > c) When a problem is corrected in a component, new tarballs and rpms will > be uploaded. The version of the updates to release X.Y.Z will be > X.Y.Z.1, X.Y.Z.2 and so forth. For example, if a patch release is made > to shorewall-perl 4.0.7, the first such release will have the files: > > shorewall-perl-4.0.7.1.tar.bz2 > shorewall-perl-4.0.7.1.tgz > shorewall-perl-4.0.7-1.noarch.rpm > patch-perl-4.0.7.1 [snip] > Here is a sample of what a base release directory will look line: [snip] > -rw-r--r-- 1 webadmin www 200089 2007-12-13 08:27 > shorewall-common-4.0.7-0base.noarch.rpm > -rw-r--r-- 1 webadmin www 200038 2007-12-10 15:18 > shorewall-common-4.0.7-1.noarch.rpm > -rw-r--r-- 1 webadmin www 134859 2007-12-13 08:27 > shorewall-common-4.0.7.tar.bz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 webadmin www 300 2007-12-13 08:27 > shorewall-common-4.0.7.tar.bz2.asc > -rw-r--r-- 1 webadmin www 188101 2007-12-13 08:27 shorewall-common-4.0.7.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 webadmin www 300 2007-12-13 08:27 > shorewall-common-4.0.7.tgz.asc The presence of shorewall-common-4.0.7-1.noarch.rpm (according to my reading of a-c above) indicates that there's been a patch release for shorewall-common. But on the other hand there is no shorewall-common-4.0.7.1.tgz etc. Perhaps I misunderstood? J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
