Re: 0.91-pre1 released

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Philippe Faes wrote:
> Building dia-0.91-pre1 using rpm and the specfile caused a problem.  The
> suffix -pre1 doesn't seem to work on my installation (SuSE linux 8.1) I
> changed it to _pre1 (in the specfile, the filename of the tar.gz and in
> the directoryname inside the tar.gz file)
>
> # rpm -bb SPECS/dia-0.91.spec
> line 6: Illegal char '-' in version: Version: 0.91-pre1

Arrrr, stupid Red Hat.

> I bet this won't be a problem in the official release :-)

True.  But I guess unless RPM gets fixed, I guess the prereleases must use
_.

-Lars

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