[arch-dev-public] initscripts versioning

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 09:48:53 EDT 2007


On 10/21/07, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> In the past, we used the release name (in this case 2007.11) for the
> initscripts versioning and bumped the pkgrel on bugfixes/changes. Now
> that we use a tarball on the ftp, what do we do?
>
> - Include the pkgrel in the tarball name (initscripts-2007.11-1.tar.bz2)
> - Add a postfix to the version number like with the isos
> (initscripts-2007.11.1.tar.bz2)

Hah, I just spoke too soon with my last email. I'd say adding the
PKGREL to the tarball is fine, considering this is something very
Arch-specific. The GIT tags might as well match this too.

Are you using git-archive to create the tarball?

-Dan


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