[csw-maintainers] [policy] Re: feature patching, and naming

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 08.02.2011 um 02:45 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Peter Bonivart's message of Sun Feb 06 00:06:37 -0500 2011:
> 
>>> 1.2.3,pi,REV=YYYY.MM.DD
>> 
>> This is the best in my opinion. Let's treat it as flags and only
>> allow to pick from a fixed list to keep it from getting carried away
>> and be easily checked.
> 
> Agreed.  Does anyone _not_ like this choice?
> 
>> p = patched
>> i = i386 only
>> s = sparc only
> 
> Works for me.  Anything else that would be useful to define at the
> outset here?

Two things:
- Lets remove i/s as it is good to always release a bundle. The i386 only
  was used in the past if someone made a manual mistake during packaging and
  wanted to respin i386 only. This is IMHO generally bad. If an error occurs
  all packages should be rebuild. Introducing extra complexity to allow for
  manual patching is not a good idea. We should focus on full automation and
  the flag is useless for this.
- If the "p" flag is present there should be checkpkg-check that
  /opt/csw/share/doc/<catalogname>/README.CSW is present.


Best regards

  -- Dago