Re: [Oscar-devel] OSCAR Package versions

[Jeff Squyres]

I think that an easy solution would be to have a second, complete 
version number that is affiliated with the underlying package version.  
Its use is for printing/information only -- it's never used in OSCAR 
version number comparisons -- and is therefore optional.

So for your Ganglia scenario, your package number should be 2.5.6-1, 
and the underlying ganglia version can be set to 2.5.6-1.  If you 
update the Ganglia opkg, then you can update the upper level number 
(i.e., the official opkg version number) to 2.5.6-2 while leaving the 
lower level number (ganglia RPM, so to speak, although that's not 100% 
accurate) as 2.5.6-1.

So opd (and various other OSCAR tools) can display it something like:
Ganglia version 2.5.6-1, OSCAR packaging version 2.5.6-2.
Or, if you're in an opkg that doesn't have an underlying version 
number, it would be displayed thus:

Ganglia, OSCAR packaging version 2.5.6-2.
Howzat?
On Feb 14, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Bernard Li wrote:
I had an IM session with John about this earlier, but I thought I'd 
throw this out to the public.
�
Basically I'm trying to figure out a versioning scheme for OSCAR 
Packages.
�
As far as naming is conerned, there are 2 types of packages - a 
package which includes�RPMs or a package which configures RPMs (or deb 
or whatever...)
�
For the first case, an example would be Ganglia.� The Ganglia version 
is 2.5.6-1 - this is fine and dandy, so the package version is 2.5.6-1 
too.� However, what happens when I make changes to the Ganglia 
_package_ (and keep the RPMs the same)?� I can't really up the release 
number ("1") and the epoch # isn't currently displayed in the 
selector/OPD...� is this even the 'correct' way of using the epoch 
number?
�
For the second scenario, let's say I'm modifying the package 
ntpconfig.� It does not provide any RPMs so I can't version it based 
on included RPMs - should I just up the version number arbitrarily (as 
the package author/maintainer)?
�
Thoughts?
�
Thanks,
�
Bernard

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