[bugs] [OpenIndiana Distribution - Bug #1118] /dev-il illumos version will break illumos onu

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Issue #1118 has been updated by Rich Lowe.


Andrzej Szeszo wrote:
> Not having branch version number would make life easier for people building their own packages. Especially when using pkgdepend to resolve dependencies. Software would not need to re-republished with every release of the distribution. It is possible that in many cases the resulting packages will install fine even on Solaris 11!

That's an artifact of the incorporations, nothing to do with package versioning.  If you want that to be true, alter how you generate the incorporation packages to incorporate less specifically where appropriate.

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> Also, people working on a distribution could choose to not to rebuild/republish every single package when preparing new release. Existing packages could be used instead.
> 

That's also the result of incorporations, not versioning.

> Making incorporations less restrictive is another area to explore. We could make them to be just empty stubs in the development branch of the distribution. We could potentially also remove reverse dependencies on the incorporations from the actual packages. It would make it easier for people to create their own 'backports' of never software without messing with incorporation packages.

That's the right way to achieve all this, though there are packages that _do_ have to be precisely in sync, so just removing them is a bad way to do it.  That also makes it difficult to discover bugs.

> Again, I am not sure this is the way to go forward and I am probably forgetting about something. Idea itself though makes a lot of sense to me at the moment.

Certainly not something we can use to fix the immediate problem.


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Bug #1118: /dev-il illumos version will break illumos onu
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1118

Author: Rich Lowe
Status: New
Priority: High
Assignee: 
Category: OS/Net (Kernel and Userland)
Target version: oi_151_stable
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: 


In the /dev-il repo the build version of illumos was incremented to 0.151, to match everything else.   Because in the illumos source tree the packages remain at 0.148, this means that any packages built from our source tree will no longer install on OI.  It'd be nice to avoid that.

The problem is that if you keep our current version number, people running oi_148 will get the upgrade, because the incorporations aren't (and perhaps can't be) tight enough to prevent it.

Solutions I can think of are:

# Leave illumos version at 0.148, trust that we have done nothing incompatible, and that we'll bump that number if we do
# Have illumos bump their version to match yours, and continue to do so (I'm against this)
# Have illumos bump their version _far_ past you, and give you your own space to play in, as long as you never catch back up and screw it again (ie, call illumos 1.0, and leave you guys with 0.* in which to play).  This is probably the smoothest solution, but I'm sure people will argue about the merits of calling something "1.0", even in a place nobody really looks.




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