Ok, this might work. I'll play with it. Thanks. On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 21:09 +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.engelschall.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org > Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org > -- David M. Fetter - Portland State University - UNIX Systems Administrator "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." ~Einstein
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