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Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:48:48 +0100
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: aef769614f92 - main - pkgbase: differentiate package versions for ALPHA/BETA/PRERELEASE/RC phases
Message-ID:  <20210114164848.607e82e8f1612cb504b0a64f@bidouilliste.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACNAnaFwAPusz1zx6nRRmTeOL7c89=h0XgdgyYo_T8LHcLmZug@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:44:22 -0600
Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 9:41 AM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 9:02 AM Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:59:25 -0300
> > > Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 14/01/21 10:00, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > > > > The branch main has been updated by manu:
> > > > >
> > > > > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=aef769614f921660cb0262412426034cf5395ae5
> > > > >
> > > > > commit aef769614f921660cb0262412426034cf5395ae5
> > > > > Author:     Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
> > > > > AuthorDate: 2021-01-14 12:56:38 +0000
> > > > > Commit:     Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
> > > > > CommitDate: 2021-01-14 13:00:04 +0000
> > > > >
> > > > >      pkgbase: differentiate package versions for ALPHA/BETA/PRERELEASE/RC phases
> > > > >
> > > > >      The current postfix conversions are:
> > > > >
> > > > >          CURRENT / STABLE -> .sYYYYMMDDhhmmss
> > > > >          ALPHAx -> .ax, so 11.3-ALPHA1 becomes 11.3.a1
> > > > >          BETAx -> .bx, so 12.1-BETA2 becomes 12.1.b2
> > > > >          RCx -> .rcx, so 13.0-RC3 becomes 13.0.rc3
> > > > >          PRERELEASE -> .p, so 11.3-PRERELEASE becomes 11.3.p
> > > > >          RELEASE -> (nothing), so 12.1-RELEASE becomes 12.1
> > > >
> > > > Wouldn't it be necessary to add timestamp information on PRERELEASE as
> > > > done on CURRENT/STABLE ?
> > >
> > >  Yes it would, this wasn't one of the reason for the revert but it was
> > > brough to me after.
> > >  -STABLE should always be .sYYYYMMDDhhmmss even when in the PRERELEASE
> > > phase.
> >
> > I had a chance to play with it a little bit, and my proposal is:
> >
> > 1.) Drop -PRERELEASE as a non-CURRENT/STABLE versioning scheme in the
> > pkg versions
> > 2.) Use .plYYYYMMDDhhmmss instead of .sYYYYMMDDhhmmss for
> > CURRENT/STABLE (.pl sorts before all others in the pkg version scheme
> > quite intentionally)
> > 3.) Reinstate all of the others as committed here
> >
> > This basically works; it's a little kludgy during a release process up
> > until the version on -STABLE is bumped up to the next minor if you're
> > trying to hop off an alpha/beta/rc back to stable, but I think that's
> > acceptable. It's a narrow window in which your slide over to -STABLE
> > is considered a downgrade since it gets bumped promptly at the
> > conclusion of the release cycle.
> >
> > root@viper:~/pkg/libpkg# pkg version -t 13.0.a1 13.0.b1
> > <
> > root@viper:~/pkg/libpkg# pkg version -t 13.0.b1 13.0.rc1
> > <
> > root@viper:~/pkg/libpkg# pkg version -t 13.0.rc1 13.0
> > <
> 
> I omitted the first step, which is arguably the most important one:
> 
> root@viper:~/pkg/libpkg# pkg version -t 13.0.pl2021011313063 13.0.a1
> <

 Seems good to me, now if only I knew what 'pl' stands for that would
be good :)
 Can you do a patch or should I ?

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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