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

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Issue #1118 has been updated by Albert Lee.


Andrzej Szeszo wrote:
> Rich, regarding incorporations, branch version numbers and keeping packages in sync. How would you handle illumos update which requires system/kernel and system/library to be upgraded at the same time? Were you thinking about bumping branch version numbers for both packages and updating incorporation? Or maybe bumping the actual package versions from 0.5.11? Just curious.

For illumos, I was thinking of just updating the branch numbers and the incorporation to match; seems more reasonable than updating the package versions with the branch version forever stuck at 0.148.
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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: Andrzej Szeszo
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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