On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:30:52AM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:

> > How are we planning on handling versioning?  For example, will we have 
> > multiple versions of the JDK in the repository?
> 
> Yes, likely.
> 
> > From a dependency point of view, is there the ability to both specify a
> > specific version (e.g.  JDK Update 3) as well as the latest (e.g. latest
> > JDK in the repository)?
> 
> As long as the versioning is done in the version portion of the FMRI and
> not in the package name (like we currently have with SUNWj3rt, SUNWj5rt,
> SUNWj6rt), then yes, you can either specify a particular version or you can
> specify that any version will satisfy your dependency (by specifying no
> version in the dependency fmri).  Once constraints are introduced, you'll
> be able to tie yourself to, say, jdk 1.5, but that's not something that
> works at the moment.

I was wondering about this the other day.

Say I have libfoo 1.5 and libfoo 2, because libfoo 2 introduces a
whole bunch of changes that would break 1.5 consumers, how would that be
expressed in IPS?

I don't want IPS to "upgrade" from 1.5 to 2, since that's wrong - I need
both. Typically this thing is done by introducing a package named
"libfoo2". What's the plan for IPS?

regards
john
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