William Schumann wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> William Schumann wrote: >>> Sundar Yamunachari wrote: >>>> My usage of Major, Minor and Micro release doesn't conform the >>>> Solaris definitions. Even though OpenSolaris is not going to follow >>>> Solaris 10 update model, I am giving an example from Solaris 10. If >>>> the system has Solaris 10 update 2 build 6 (may be beta), how will >>>> you represent this release? >>> For this, I propose: >>> MICROREV=<microrev> (optional) >>> and >>> FULL_VERSION=VERSION.REV[.MICROREV] >>> where <microrev> is <micro revision number>[a | b | ...] >>> >>> Your example would be FULL_VERSION=10.2.6b >>> >> How is that different than the BUILD_ID? > An example of the build ID would be 'snv79a'. Internally at Sun, build > ID is what is currently used to refer to versions. At this point, it's > just a different convention for representing the same notion as in > FULL_VERSION. Perhaps BUILD_ID could be dropped, but some people might > still like to see it.
In the example above, you converted Sundar's build number to a micro-revision, so I'm not understanding what the difference is. Dave
