[ewg] version number of rpms on OFED-1.3.1

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun May 18 05:55:11 PDT 2008


Doron Shoham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some of the RPMs that will be included in OFED 1.3.1 will be different
> in content from the ones in OFED 1.3. (e.g. open-iscsi)
> Therefore, I think that those RPMs must have a different version number.
> 
> Is there already a convention for that?
> Else, we need to define one.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Doron
> 

It is responsibility of the package maintainer to update version number.
Package version number should follow Linux software versioning convention.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Numeric

Regards,
Vladimir



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