[oi-dev] OpenIndiana /hipster build number

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hello, people.
Let's do something about package versions. It's  really awesome to have 
the newest illumos-gate version. But it breaks existing installations. 
In current scheme packages are always compiled against latest illumos 
and we have no way to distinguish between package versions.

I see several ways to deal with this problem.
1) Building  illumos-gate only once a week/two weeks/etc, bump 
ONNV_BUILDNUM (and perhaps BRANCHID at the same time) in  jenkins or in 
cron job (151.1.8.1.N).

2) We can generate incremental series of ONNV_BUILDNUM automatically and 
in consistent way. For example,
changing

echo export ONNV_BUILDNUM=$(ONNV_BUILDNUM)

to

echo export ONNV_BUILDNUM=$(ONNV_BUILDNUM).$$(git log --format=%H |wc 
-l|tr -d ' '))

in components/illumos/illumos-gate/Makefile

will generate consistent (but perhaps, not human-friendly) series of 
numbers.

Any other suggestions?
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University