svn commit: r361646 - in head/net/samba36: . files

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

[ CC list trimmed; bjk@ added (see below) ]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 06:14:55PM +0100, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote:
> Let me explain the situation with pkg. Pkg needs to find so called
> ``upgrade chains'' that are used to upgrade packages. To find out
> packages that are suitable for upgrade we use origins in pkg 1.2 and
> name~origin in pkg 1.3.
> 
> However, each package is identified by a special field called
> `manifestdigest'. In pkg 1.2, this field is just sha256(manifest).
> Unfortunately, this means that if *any* field of a package is changed a
> version bump is required. By fields I mean files and directories as well
> which leads thus to a policy where we need to bump a revision even if we
> have meaningless changes in the files a package provides (that happens
> after this particular change).
> 
> With pkg 1.3 this behaviour has been changed to recognize the following
> fields only:
> 
> *  name
> *  origin
> *  version
> *  arch
> *  maintainer
> *  www
> *  message
> *  comment
> *  options
> 
> Hence, I think that with the release 1.3 of pkg we should define
> revision bump policy to reflect this change.

I've recalled that bjk@ mentioned once that he was giving a talk about some
interesting features of Debian packaging at the ports devsummit at BSDCan.
Maybe we can learn a thing or two from those guys?  Ben, can you share your
opinion on Vsevolod's proposal (you might want to see other messages in the
thread first)?  Thanks.

./danfe