Bug 436931

Summary: package initscripts has odd looking version
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Michal Nowak <mnowak>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: initscripts Maintenance Team <initscripts-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 5.2CC: ohudlick
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Description Michal Nowak 2008-03-11 08:41:56 UTC
Description of problem:

current initscript version is 

  initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1

which seems to me really odd versioned. 

Actual results:
  Package named: initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1

  Version: 8.45.19.EL
  Release: 1%{?dist}

Expected results:
  Package named: initscripts-8.45.19-1.el5

  Version: 8.45.19
  Release: 1%{?dist}

Additional info:

I believe "EL" suffix was used in RHEL3 times, now we use %{?dist} tag in
release field of SPEC file and omit the "EL" in version field:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-03-11 15:25:50 UTC
EL denotes that it's built from one of the RHEL branches in upstream CVS/git. I
suppose we could change the versioning for RHEL6, but it's not something we'll
change for RHEL 5.