Bug 436931 - package initscripts has odd looking version
Summary: package initscripts has odd looking version
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: initscripts Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-11 08:41 UTC by Michal Nowak
Modified: 2013-03-08 02:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-03-11 15:25:50 UTC
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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.
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