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From: Jurek Bartuszek <jurek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:58:59
Message-Id: 462E8B01.5070900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86 by "Piotr Jaroszyński"
1 Piotr Jaroszyñski wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 25 of April 2007 00:04:35 Jurek Bartuszek wrote:
3 >> Hmm, is swiching from _rc2 to _rc000200000000 trouble-free from user's
4 >> POV too? Wouldn't he be forced to "update" from former to latter then?
5 >> It's the same version. Or am I missing something?
6 >
7 > There is no need for such a switch, just add new snapshot using the long _rc.
8 > Once you do it you will have to keep using it until version bump,
9 > e.g. (low to high):
10 > 1.0_rc1
11 > 1.0_rc000120070101 (newer snapshot of rc1)
12 > 1.0_rc0120070102 (leading zeroes are omitted)
13 > 1.0_rc000320070201 (here the date doesn't matter as long it's 8 digits long)
14 > 1.1_rc1 (yuupi version bump and we can use short _rc again)
15
16 Fine, that answers my question. Anyway, I personally still prefer double
17 suffixes over fiddling with _rc.
18
19 Best regards,
20 Jurek
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