Re: Upstream changed released versions from 1.0.2 -> 3025803779 (!)

Nuno Teixeira <eduardo_at_freebsd.org> wrote on
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:37:05 UTC :

> (...)
> And at this point I'm in doubt on what to use:
> 
> DISTVERSION= 1.0.${GH_TAGNAME} || DISTVERSION= {GH_TAGNAME}
> 
> :)

As far as I can tell, neither works by itself, overall.
This is because ${GH_TAGNAME} will not in general be
increasing: as far as I know it is just a hash and so
will look to be random from one update to the next.

If upstream does not make the text that identifies the
version allow sorting versions in release-sequence-order,
it would seem that the port must invent its own release
sequence tracking identification text. (But I'm no
ports infrastructure expert.)

I wonder if there are other ports that have to deal
with such --and if there are, what they did.

May be I'm wrong, but I thought that the ports
infrastructure required being able to compare strings
to identify newer vs. older.

Having ${GH_TAGNAME} after a textual prefix that always
allows the comparison would seem to be okay. But the
prefix with the property looks to be essential to me.

What a mess, even if I got the wrong understanding of
the ports infrastructure's requirements.

> Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> escreveu no dia segunda, 12/09/2022
> à(s) 19:19:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I forgot to mention deskutils/treesheets port.
> >
> > I've been talking with Stefan se@ and he advised me to avoid PORTEPOCH
> > swithing from 1.0.2 -> gYYMMDD and use 1.0.2 -> 1.0.${GH_TAGNAME} where:
> > GH_TAGNAME=3025803779 (release version).
> > This way we avoid PORTEPOCH and be prepared for future 1.1.x version but
> > upstream told me that they will continue to use CI run ids as versions.

Wow: version identification text that is not sortable
into a release-sequence-order relative to past releases
at the time.

> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> escreveu no dia segunda, 12/09/2022 à(s)
> > 19:08:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> > > Recently, upstream change version naming from 1.0.2 -> 3025803779
> >> based on CI run id as release tag.
> >> >
> >> > Which port is this for?
> >>
> >> deskutils/treesheets
> >>


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