Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:46:34 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>, Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r361646 - in head/net/samba36: . files Message-ID: <20140716134634.GA53978@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <53C5618F.2020104@FreeBSD.org> References: <201407122229.s6CMTN42057554@svn.freebsd.org> <CALdFvJGQq=PNpAqBBEZXi-q0GT=Ro-fRSjGcHFR1R01=FBtQOQ@mail.gmail.com> <53C322A7.2090705@marino.st> <20140714003112.GA54756@mouf.net> <CALdFvJEvf4-RSJNUVxX08T8K-tq9PoKge-XxmhDafAn_QxjEcg@mail.gmail.com> <53C451FA.2020304@marino.st> <20140715170501.GA73101@FreeBSD.org> <53C5618F.2020104@FreeBSD.org>
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[ 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
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