Steve Gonczi wrote: > Looking at some actual package FMRI-s generated by the nightly build, I > notice that the build-generated FMRI-s spill the actual build number > into the vendor branch number field. Consequently "Vendors" have no > place left to put _their_ version tags.
Not entirely true. Each vendor can have their own branch numbering scheme. The scheme the OpenSolaris distribution has been using so far, while a temporary measure that has gone on longer than its originators would have liked, is simply one way of doing it. Another vendor could undoubtedly put it to better use. > ,5.11 /* As per the man page, this is supposed to be the build number, > why is the component version put here again?*/ This is a coarse-grained identifier, indicating what minor version of Solaris the component was built on, not what build it was part of, and not intended to come down to the level of an individual build. Note that for all currently published packages, this is "5.11", and indeed is hard-coded in many places in the packaging system. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
