Re: [opensuse-buildservice] Can I stop revision incrementing?

Thank you both - this is very helpful information. Yes, I like to maintain a bit of control over my package version numbers. I'm pretty careful, so I don't think this will cause me problems. :) On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On 3/27/2008 at 17:03, "John Calcote" wrote: Hi all,

I'm wondering if there's a way to stop the revision number from incrementing with each modification of a project's sources.

When I first discovered the ability to disable publication, I thought that NOT publishing would stop automatic revision incrementing -- it seemed logical to me that because a package hasn't been published yet, there is no reason to increment the revision number between builds. In individual development, one doesn't increment the revision number unless a revision has become public. However, this appears not to be true - the revision is auto-incremented even if no repository of a package is published.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

As pointed out in http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2007-06/msg00062.html you can change it with osc meta -e prjconf <yourproject>

and add a line Release:

for example... it will still recompile the packages whenever something in the dependency chain get's updated, but your packages will not reflect this behavior. I'm not sure if that's actually I thing you want to do.

Another idea might be that you want to 'tag' your builds (in the form PackMan does): then probably a Release: .mybuild. should give you a similar effect.

Not changing the version number on a rebuild can impose the risk that an underlying library might change, the API may remain stable but the ABI changes.. then your app is very likely to crash, as it's not being updated by the user (no indication, same version numbers).

Cheers, Dominique

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