Identifying a particular build

[Tim T.]

Hi Thierry,

 thanks for your suggestion. However, won't that break yum ? We currently
use the Release field as a sequence number.

Thanks,

 Tim T.


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Thierry Vignaud
<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 4 April 2014 11:37, Tim T. <tim.timmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For a RHEL6 project (RPM 4.0.0) , with input from many developers, doing
> > parallel development in a clearcase environment, we'd like to have some
> > indication of which stream was used to build a particular RPM.
> >
> > For instance if I'm developing in a stream (branch)
> > "timt_blue_monkey_20140404", I'd like to have that  stream identification
> > available in the final rpm.
> >
> >
> > Is there a field in the header that we could use for this ? What is
> common
> > best practice ?
>
> Just use the Release tag.
> eg:
>
> %define clearcase_tag timt_blue_monkey_20140404
> Version: 0.1
> Release: 3.%clearcase_tag
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