From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] patchlevel version numbers....
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:08:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608070803.GA30137@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120607153321.2572ccf8@archvile>
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 03:33:21PM +0200, David Jander wrote:
> My excuses if this had been asked before. I have not found any
> information about this issue:
>
> Currently version numbers in ptxdist (version 2011.12) are tightly
> coupled to the original source filename that is downloaded. This is in
> the end the version number in the package filename. But, what if there
> are local patches to the package (bug fixes, cross-compile fixes,
> etc...), shouldn't the package get a suffix to the version number
> (i.e. like debian package version numbers)?
>
> Now I have the situation that we have added extra patches to fix bugs
> in packages that were previously released to customers. I can't find a
> way to properly differentiate the new package from the old one. How is
> this supposed to be dealt with?
I think we don't have a really good strategy for that yet; for most
industrial users, using packages is more development feature, because
people often treat the "firmware" as a big blob with one version number.
That obviously has the advantage that less package combinations need to
be tested for deployment, but of course it is far from being optimal. We
definitely want to have a strategy for people who want to maintain their
own distribution.
Next week at the Pengutronix TechWeek 2012, "updating" / "packaging" etc
is one of the focus topics of the platform team. We'd like to identify
the issues for software updating (I think there are about 4 major
usecases) and come up with possible solutions.
So if you have ideas how to improve the mechanisms, we are very open to
suggestions.
rsc
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2012-06-07 13:33 David Jander
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2012-06-08 14:00 ` David Jander
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