On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:54:38PM -0000, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Kyberd said:
> > I have a damn silly question. At the point at which a release is
> created
> > is it possible to create an identical "roll back release".
> > So X.5 is created and at the same time X.6.1 - the pointer to
> production
> > release points to X.5. When X.6 is released the production release
> points
> > to X.6 and if there is a problem it is then re-pointed to X.6.1.
>
> The question is what the rpm versions would be in the rollback release -
> at the moment they are tied to the code version in cvs, so you can't
> produce rpms with different versions from the same code (and if you
> could it would make it a lot harder to figure out which source code is
> in which rpm).
You can increase the epoch of the rpm if you want to keep the same
version number. This is exactly the reason the epoch is there, to
allow you to rollback to older versions.
If the issue is with the build system/cvs then this is what should be
fixed instead of adding hacks to workaround flaws in the workflow.
Kostas
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