Dear devs,
In https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2016-April/018161.html
(sorry, I can't reply to that thread directly, as I've only just
subscribed to the list), there was a patch to remove the -2' from PR to
fix the following error from the do_package_rpm script:
| error: line 4: invalid tag value("^[A-Za-z0-9+._]+$") Release:
Release: r2015.11-2
| error: Package has no %description: libgcc-linaro+5.2.aarch64
This was NACKed by Koen Kooi because it "winds back the release, which
is bad and breaks upgrade paths, which is worse". Good points. (Some
package version comparison algorithms would treat "r2015.11-2" as a
lower version number than "r2015.11", but others would treat it as a
higher version number. Package managers often have to massage upstream
version numbers in obnoxious ways to fit into the package manager's
version numbering rules.)
Is there a recommended resolution for this problem or any plans to fix
it? In my own case, I worked around it locally by adding the following
line to meta-linaro-toolchain/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-linaro-5.2.inc
after the setting of the PR variable:
PKGR = "${@'${PR}'.replace('-', '+')}"
The effect is to replace '-' with '+' in the RPM package versions. I'm
not sure what effect that has on the upgrade path though. Would
replacing the '-' with a '.' or a '_' be better?
Best regards,
Ian Abbott
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