Adding `branches' to VuXML

[Robert Nagy]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 18:18, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Robert Nagy of OpenBSD requested the addition of `branches' to
> VuXML.  I expected that he would be posting a proposal here, but since I
> haven't seen it I'll give it a shot on my own.
> 
> In FreeBSD, we do not branch the Ports Collection like we do the base
> system.  However, it seems that OpenBSD's Ports & Packages Collection
> *does* use branches.  Thus, it is possible for a security issue to
> affect foo-1.1 in branch BRANCH_X, but not foo-1.1 in BRANCH_Y.
> Currently, it is not possible to express this in VuXML, short of
> maintaining separate VuXML files for each branch (e.g. branching the
> VuXML file, also).
> 
> So, here is a suggested extension by example.
> 
> The <package> element in VuXML 1.1 has two child elements, <name> and
> <range>.  These behave as a kind of cross-product: it expresses that
> the affected packages are all of those combinations of name and range.
> e.g.
> 
>    <package>
>      <name>foo</name>
>      <name>bar</name>
>      <range><ge>2.0</ge><lt>2.2</lt></range>
>      <range><lt>1.5</lt></range>
>    </package>
> 
> expresses that these ranges are affected:
> 
>            foo < 1.5
>     2.0 <= foo < 2.2
>            bar < 1.5
>     2.0 <= bar < 2.2
> 
> (Note also that there can be multiple <package> elements for an issue.)
> 
> So one possibility would be to add a <branch> child element:
> 
>   <!-- foo-1.1 and earlier on BRANCH_X and BRANCH_Y are
>        affected.  BRANCH_Z and others are not affected. --->
>   <package>
>     <branch>BRANCH_X</branch>
>     <branch>BRANCH_Y</branch>
>     <name>foo</name>
>     <range><le>foo-1.1</le></range>
>   <package>
> 
> The content model for <package> and <system> are the same.  I wonder if
> the optional presence of the <branch> child element for <system> will
> cause any confusion?  Right now, for issues that affect the FreeBSD base
> system, we just use version numbers without reference to the branch.
> e.g.
>       <system>
> 	<name>FreeBSD</name>
> 	<range><ge>5.0</ge><lt>5.2_6</lt></range>
> 	<range><ge>4.9</ge><lt>4.9_6</lt></range>
> 	<range><ge>4.0</ge><lt>4.8_19</lt></range>
>       </system>
> 
> Anyway ... comments?
Thanks. Sorry i totally forgot about this. I've shitloads to do. Yeah I
like it.
-- 
Robert Nagy