[OpenAFS-devel] Trial Baloon for Red Hat packaging

[sodre]

Since you already made up your mind on increasing the name... go all the
way with option 2...

Patrick Sodre
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 23:32, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking into making some small (relatively) changes to the Red Hat
> packaging as I add krb5 support.  Before I went ahead with these
> changes I wanted to ask people for opinions.  The two major changes I
> propose to make are:
> 
> 	1) Change the "release" number of all the packages.  In
>            particular, remove the kernel version information and add
>            the Red Hat release version to all of the packages.  In
>            other words, instead of packages named like
>            "openafs-1.2.1-22.1" we'd have "openafs-1.2.1-6.2.1" (for
>            RH6.2) or "openafs-1.2.1-7.2.1" (for RH7.1).  This should
>            have no direct impact on users, as it is only the 'release'
>            information that is changing.
> 
> 	2) Change the "release" of the openafs-kernel package to
>            include both the RedHat release and the OS version.  Again
>            this shouldn't have any impact on users, except for
>            information purposes.  This would mean that the packages
>            would be named either:
> 		openafs-kernel-1.2.1-22.6.2.1
> 	   or
> 		openafs-kernel-1.2.1-6.2.22.1
> 
> Does anyone have a preference for which method is used in #2?  Do we
> need both kernel and OS versions here, or would just the OS (RedHat)
> version be sufficient?
> 
> Any suggestions, observations, etc. are welcome.  I would prefer
> to stay away from any anti-RedHat comments, please; I acknowledge
> that there are limitations in the RedHat packaging model.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -derek
>