On Sun, Oct 15, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:53, Jan Blunck wrote:

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Therefore my proposal for fixing this issue: a buildservice package link should inherit the release number from its source package. All changes inside the linked package (additional patches, files, ...) should be added to this release number.

I don't understand what you mean exactly: do you mean that when there are changes other than plainly linking the package, then the release number should be <linked-to-package-release-number> + 1, and if there are no changes, the package should keep the original <linked-to-package-release-number>?

Correct. From talking to mls it seems that it is somehow a requirement that the linked packages have a higher release number if they have changes in. Therefore you can make sure that the package with the changes is installed if you have both available.

I'm not sure that we want to hardwire the way how release numbers are computed for linked packages; I could imagine that we sometimes want to use the same release numbers for the linked-from and linked-to packages, and in other cases we want to keep the release numbers independent.

Yes, but so far nobody came up with a usecase.

In the kernel case in particular, we need to associate each particular check-in (i.e., each set of package sources) with a unique identifier; this is sufficient so that all the packages will refer to the correct paths in /usr/src/* and /lib/modules/*. Without it, building external kernel modules would break.

This is assured by increasing the release number of kernel-source package with every check-in. The internal pathnames of all packages refer to the release number of the kernel-dummy package. The problem I'm talking about are the external visible release numbers of the packages in the project. They differ although the packages are related to each other. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org