On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Josh Butikofer wrote:
Steve,
Maybe I'm crazy, but that is the way that Maui snapshots used to
work. Several in the community
asked that we instead start releasing snapshots of patches BEFORE
the patches were released. After
several snapshots of the next patch were deemed stable and
complete, then we stop releasing
snapshots and release a finished patch. You can see that we started
this back in January of this year.
Hi Josh,
I don't think you are crazy. :-) It is good that intermediate
snapshots are released of course. Just
how they are named I was querying.
I was suggesting the release order goes like
maui-.2.6p19.tar.gz
maui-2.6p19-snap-1.tar.gz
maui-2.6p19-snap-2.tar.gz
maui-2.6p20.tar.gz
maui-2.6p20-snap-1.tar.gz
maui-2.6p20-snap-2.tar.gz
maui-2.6p21.tar.gz
rather than the current
maui-.2.6p19.tar.gz
maui-2.6p20-snap-1.tar.gz
maui-2.6p20-snap-2.tar.gz
maui-2.6p20.tar.gz
maui-2.6p21-snap-1.tar.gz
maui-2.6p21-snap-2.tar.gz
maui-2.6p21.tar.gz
the advantage I see of the first is that with a `sort -n` of the
version numbers in the .tar.gz files they appear
in chronological order. In particular if you put in an RPM .spec file.
Version: 2.6p19-snap1
then this will be correctly upgraded to
Version: 2.6p20
when it is released. With the current listing this does not happen
and say
Version: 2.6p21-snap-2
can not be upgraded to
Version: 2.6p21
since it is apparently older.
To me it makes sense but as you say maybe others think differently?
Steve
A quote form an e-mail I sent dated 1/18/2007:
"Note that we now officially release
a Maui patch only after the snapshots for that particular patch
prove to be stable and we feel that
enough fixes/features have been rolled into them to warrant a new
release. Thus patch 19 is not yet
listed as officially released, but snapshots for that patch are
already available. Snapshots always
have the most up-to-date bug fixes, so we recommend trying them out
if you experience problems with
older versions of Maui."
If there is an overwhelming need/demand to change releases back to
the way they used to be done, we
will be happy to do that. Until that is the case, however, we would
like to continue releasing Maui
with the current snapshot->patch model. Unfortunately, I think
there are going to be community
members that stand on both sides of the issue.
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Steve Traylen wrote:
Hi
Currently
maui-3.2.6p20-snap.1182974819.tar.gz
is
maui-3.2.6p19.tar.gz
plus some patches.
It has been requested at least a couple of times before and I
think at
one point someone agreed to change it
for upcoming releases so that instead the intermediate snapshots
would be.
maui-3.2.6p19-snap.1182974819.tar.gz
which would be maui-3.2.6p19.tar.gz plus some patches.
With the current numbering scheme it makes snapshots newer than
the next released update maui-3.2.6p20.tar.gz
Please could this be considered.
Steve
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