Johnny Hughes wrote:

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:47 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:

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I have built GFS & CS packages for CentOS-3. I am not aware of official CentOS versions yet so I am offering these packages.

The current location is http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/ See the readme.txt for more information.

John.

Thanks John :)

Did you have modify the SOURCE tar file from the original src.rpm, or only the SPEC file?

Only the SPEC file. My version numbering is slightly different to CentOS-3. I do not use .0 for a SPEC only change because it is not scalable. If you need to rerelease with another SPEC only change (which I have done with my GFS package) then where do you go?

I have been using .c2 for CentOS-2 and .c3 for CentOS-3.

John.

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For packages modified in CentOS-2, I have a build script which modifies the rpm release string. Release: 2.1.4 becomes Release: 2.1.4%{centos_version}%{centos_release}

and %define centos_version .c2 %define centos_release .1 is added to the top of the spec file.

The centos_version indicates what OS version is being targeted (c2 = CentOS-2) The centos_release is the version of the modifications I have made. When the real release is updated, I start numbering at 1. If I need to make a modification because of a centos only issue (like initscripts) then I update the centos_release to the next number. This provides useful rpm release number strings and does not make the full package name too long (though still tricky to read mozilla-mail-1.4.3-2.1.4.c2.1).

I always start centos_release at .1. Most changes are spec only but some packages have new/extra files (like apache which has a centos default web page). I do not modify the existing files in the rpm but replace files as necessary with the prep/build rpm scriptlets.

When I built GFS, I reused my existing scripts so I also reused the numbering system, except with centos_version = .c3

One thing I do not do is alter the changelog. This is because it was too hard to script and get all the entries in the correct order. I have not got round to trying mezzanine yet, I am hoping it can solve that problem for me.

I hope that explains everything :)

John.

Lance Davis wrote:

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, John Newbigin wrote:

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... My version numbering is slightly different to CentOS-3. I do not use .0 for a SPEC only change because it is not scalable. If you need to rerelease with another SPEC only change (which I have done with my GFS package) then where do you go?

.0b of course

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I have been using .c2 for CentOS-2 and .c3 for CentOS-3.

hmm

so what do you do then if you need to make another one :)

or have I missed something ??

Lance

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John.

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