[freeside-users] 1.7.3 release candidate 1

[Ivan Kohler]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:05:35AM -0400, Richard Siddall wrote:
> Ivan Kohler wrote:
> > No joke.
> > 
> > Download:  http://www.freeside.biz/freeside/freeside-1.7.3rc1.tar.gz
> > Changelog: http://www.freeside.biz/mediawiki/index.php/Freeside:1.7.3:Changelog
> > MD5sum:    cb57eefcc70dda56c841231de084da1b  freeside-1.7.3rc1.tar.gz
> > 
> 
> Since the .spec file for the Redhat-ish RPM builds has not been updated
> for this release, "rpmbuild -ta freeside-1.7.3rc1.tar.gz" won't work.
> The .spec file still assumes the tarball is freeside-1.7.tar.gz.  (The
> version number is hard-coded into the .spec file and has to be updated
> when a release is made.)
>
> It does work if you use the command line override that the .spec file is
> written to support (for CVS builds), i.e:
> 
>      rpmbuild --define='version 1.7.3rc1' -ta freeside-1.7.3rc1.tar.gz
> 
> but that's sub-optimal.
> 
> I'm looking at ways of fixing it for rc2.  (It seems pointless 
> committing a fix for rc1.)

You could have the "make release" Makefile target update the .spec 
file version automatically.

Getting RPMs up in our repository along with the release is probably the 
most important thing.  We can sort out the rest later.

-- 
_ivan