[Rpm-metadata] One more thinko ...

[Jeff Johnson]

seth vidal wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 20:39, Jeff Johnson wrote:
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>>This prolly doesn't parse (but I can't do XML in my head):
>> 
>>    <packager>Seth Vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu></packager>
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>>Hmmm, same deal in %changelog. When you get there, you might as well
>>canonicalize the convention of the EVR to which the entry applies. Sneaking
>>the EVR into e-mail address exploits the lack of grammar in spec files, 
>>but that's an rpm,
>>not metadata, flaw. No way to stop the convention any more.
>>
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>I don't think I understand this thinko at all.
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><packager>Seth Vidal &lt;skvidal at phy.duke.edu&gt;</packager> - is what
>the xml looks like.
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Sorry, I'm looking at the display output, obviously tricked. Never mind.

>What's an EVR of an email address?
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There is a convention, first invented by MDK, to add the EVR of the 
package in
which the change first appeared. The EVR I refer to follows the e-mail 
address in
%changelog. Examples:

* Mon Oct 13 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj at jbj.org> 4.2.42-0.2
- resurrect db4-java.
                                                                                

* Sat Sep 20 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj at jbj.org> 4.2.42-0.1
- update to 4.2.42.
- build in build_unix subdir.
- eliminate --enable-dump185, db_dump185.c no longer compiles for libdb*.
- create db4-tcl sub-pkg to isolate libtcl dependencies.
                                                                                

* Tue Jul 15 2003 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> 4.1.25-7
- rebuild

73 de Jeff