[racket-dev] package-system update

From: James McCoy (jamessan at debian.org)
Date: Thu Jul 18 13:08:15 EDT 2013

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:17:10PM +0200, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
>     I guess it depends on how one works. When there is no release or I want to
>     package a git version of the project. I need to put a version number in
>     the package spec file, that would make it possible to upgrade or downgrade
>     without breaking the rpm database (I guess that would be the case for deb
>     packages).

FWIW, in Debian, we have a little script[0] to help package one of the
nightly snapshots.

[0]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/racket.git;a=blob;f=debian/fetch-snapshot.sh;hb=HEAD

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>

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