On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Alan Coopersmith >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Moinak Ghosh wrote: >>>> >>>> *) Why tie every package version into an ON build number. What sense >>>> it makes to refer to an ON build number for say Thunderbird ? >>> >>> None, which is why Thunderbird has the build number of the JDS build that >>> produced it. Of course, since we build all the consolidations in sync >>> around the same biweekly Nevada schedule to produce the Nevada & Indiana >>> distros, JDS & ON build numbers are both really just the Nevada WOS build >>> number. This has nothing to do with packaging and is all about our >>> process for building our distro. >> >> I understand that, been there done that. You mentioned the requirement >> of the >> main distro. What if you want to have multiple deliverables, >> distros or specialized >> appliance images delivered out of the same repo. Won't it be nice >> to have a way >> to tying package revisions to releases of those as well. A separate >> tagset will >> make that possible, instead of this: >> >> pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.97:20080905T010753Z > > For those of us not familiar with your particular delivery model, can you > give specific examples and explanations. In particular, I'm curious as to > what you mean by "separate tagset". Most of your concerns seem a bit > premature given that it has been said over and over that the existing > packaging and build numbering will be refactored at some later date. >
tagset = "onbuild=0.98,vrouter_build=0.1..." or some such. > Most of what you see in the packages today is an artefact of Sun's internal > build process, from what I understand, not some secret desire to complicate > your life :-) > I understand that fairly well :) Just voicing some concerns that popped up in our extensive discussions. As has come out of the ensuing discussions, a bunch are bugs/shortcomings that can be fixed but some are points where our viewpoints and thoughts differ - anyway. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
