[oi-dev] OpenIndiana /hipster build number

[Gordon Ross]

Yes, that might be useful, but you'll probably need to get discussion
going among the various illumos players about what sort of version
labeling scheme would work for them.

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
> 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?
> --
> Best regards,
> Alexander Pyhalov,
> system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University
>
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