Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-xen-4.5] tools/mkrpm: improve version.release handling

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 03, George Dunlap wrote:

> On 11/03/2014 02:24 PM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 03, George Dunlap wrote:
> >
> >>How difficult would it be to have this be something sensible like,
> >>"changesets since last tag"?
> >Very difficult, because one does changes without commit, runs 'make
> >rpmball' and expects that rpm -Fvh *.rpm continues to work.
> 
> Right.  Personally, I think trying to make "rpm -Fvh" work for all the use
> cases a developer might want is more hassle than it's worth; as I said, I
> have scripts that just do "rpm -e" in such cases.  I wouldn't oppose it, but
> I don't really support it either.

What exactly is the hassle here?! Its just some number for the sake of
rpm.

Olaf

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