On Fri, Sep 29, 2006, David M. Fetter wrote:
> > > Will the openpkg fix be MFC'd into the 2.20060622 stable release as an
> > > UPD? It would be nice if it was.
> >
> > Hmmm.... no, I don't think we should MFC it to the old 2-STABLE
> > snapshot. Mainly because I've already not MFC'ed other similar things
> > (like the SetUID) which could too easy break. But we'll MFC it to the
> > 2-STABLE branch and this way it will be part of the forthcoming 2-STABLE
> > snapshot which will be rolled around the 18th of October. Have a look at
> > http://www.openpkg.org/project/events.php for details on the forthcoming
> > events.
>
> Ah. Well, this brings up another topic. We're finally getting around
> to updating our servers from 2.3 to 2-STABLE. However, I'm finding that
> some of the logic in the various scripts I wrote to deal with how we
> push out and maintain our rpm repository are going to be broken now.
> You see, I have some variables that are defined by grabbing the version
> based on what 'openpkg -v' spits out.
The official way to determine the release is the newer "openpkg release"
command. Run "openpkg man release" for more details.
> With the new 2-STABLE it seems
> that there isn't as nice of a way to display a static version to build
> off of.
Well, "openpkg release --fmt=%t" should do what you want.
> Perhaps I should go into more detail. Since we don't want to
> have all of our servers rebuild all rpms, we have our own custom binary
> repository setup. The names of this repository has typically been
> "${VERSION}-${ARCH}". These variables are obtained via my scripts which
> ultimately make this to be something like "2.3-sparc-sun-solaris2.9",
> etc. With the way that openpkg now spits out it's version, it means
> that all snapshots of 2-STABLE, regardless of when they were made, will
> come out to be something like "2STABLE-sparc-sun-solaris2.10", etc.
> [...]
That's not the case with "openpkg release". It reads the optional
<prefix>/etc/openpkg/release config file and its TAG variable and this
way knowns about 2-STABLE snapshots, too.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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