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RPM package format version identification

From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse+rpm-devel@rpm5.org>
Date: Thu 27 Dec 2007 - 11:09:18 CET
Message-ID: <20071227100918.GA15328@engelschall.com>
I'm just wondering: a package created with RPM 5 is still identified as
a "RPM format 3" package:

| $ file axl-0.4.12-20071121.src.rpm
| axl-0.4.12-20071121.src.rpm: RPM v3 bin

With all of Jeff's rpmlead and some other changes this year, it it
really still correct that we define (in "macros.in")?

| %_package_version   30005

Or does RPM 5 need a (at least slight) version bump here to indicate the
package format differences which were introduced?

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com
Received on Thu Dec 27 11:10:03 2007
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