On Sun, Oct 15, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:53, Jan Blunck wrote:
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.
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Jan Blunck