On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:25 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Let me give an example.  In OFED 1.0, you shipped dapl version 1.2.  In
> > OFED 1.1, you also shipped dapl version 1.2.  However, code inspection
> > shows that between OFED 1.0 and OFED 1.1, dapl did in fact change (not a
> > lot, but anything is enough).  So, between OFED 1.0 and OFED 1.1, you
> > have two different versions of dapl, but with exactly the same version
> > number.  A person can't tell them apart.
> 
> Yes, this sure looks like a problem. I think that versioning needs to be 
> addressed
> at the package level, not at OFED level though. Right?

Versioning needs to be addressed at both levels.  You need versions of
software to start with, but then you still need releases of packages to
differentiate between different builds of a specific version of
software.

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