Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:10:36 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: tee versionning in npkg (Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number) Message-ID: <20020131171036.GA295@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020131131714.GA87780@madman.nectar.cc> References: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020131131714.GA87780@madman.nectar.cc>
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--KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu Jan 31, 2002 at 07:17:15AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:01:38PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > I'd like to propose the addition of a global src tree serial number that > > uniquely identifies an imaginary snapshot of the src tree. >=20 > This is attractive to me, since we already do something like this for > the `security' branches (RELENG_4_3 et al). We manually bump $BRANCH > in newvers.sh. I imagine it would also be attractive to people on > freebsd-binup. [with my libh developper hat on] I can't talk in the name of the binup project, since i'm not particularly involved in his developpment, but as for the next-generation package system and installation tools (libh), my idea of it is that it will be more modular than a single package with a single version number for the whole tree. The libh package system still needs some work, but when it is ready, I will start the packaging of /usr/src. I hope the tendency will not to package it as a single package, and I even hope to package it as finer-grained package than current "distributions" (bin, doc, contrib, etc). Something more like: fileutils, binutils, gnu-binutils, openssh, openssl, etc. These packages will all have independant package numbers. These will have to be maintained, somehow, and this is the main problem of the packaging of /usr/src: it is not made for that yet. No support is engineered in /usr/src to allow distribution and versionning of packages. Serial number is one thing, and it might be a good idea, but we could also consider more "classic" version numbers for sub-trees, as openssh-2001013109910000008 is not really a "user-friendly" package name. :) A. --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxZeosACgkQttcWHAnWiGe5mQCfUPIWxhNyOT6kIe7EwuTjxLiw OmEAn22DFcSq6Q0bpAv0toVSwMWkOPrt =bhe2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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