Thanks for that clarification Alan, I guess we'll just wait patiently until the consolidations move across.
Che On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:53, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@sun.com>wrote: > At the moment, for packages in the main repo (/release, /dev), the package > creator gets no choice or control - package versions are assigned by the > SVR4 -> IPS conversion, and the team doing that hasn't researched each of > the thousand packages to find what version number to publish or make sure > they stay up to date. > > This should improve as the consolidations start being converted to generate > the IPS packages directly, and they can then set the versions themselves > when creating the packages. > > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > Che Kristo wrote: > > Should we not have stricter controls over this? Seems a bit loose to me > > that you can just choose whether or not to report the version on your > > package. > > > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:06, Alan Coopersmith > > <alan.coopersm...@sun.com <mailto:alan.coopersm...@sun.com>> wrote: > > > > Marco Almeida wrote: > > > I wonder why the versioning information on packages like emacs, > nano, > > > iozone, mysql, etc. uses the source code numbering while gnome-* > and > > > firefox do not... > > > > Because not all packages have had their version numbers set yet, so > > many still just use the 0.5.11 default. > > > > -- > > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com > > <mailto:alan.coopersm...@sun.com> > > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > <mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org> > > > > > >
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