Re: [Condor-devel] Proposed changes to tarball and native package names

[Scot Kronenfeld <kronenfe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Jan 9, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Scot Kronenfeld wrote:
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>> Brian,
>> We've tossed out the idea of including the git hash in the file names, but:
>> a) it's not monotonically increasing, so it can't be used as the
>> version.  You worked around that by also including the build number.
>> b) we worried it is too long - at least without trimming.  I assume
>> you don't want to see an RPM named:
>> condor-7.7.5-0.b24406.6c8f0737e62a145b3ed074d48ace82996beecaa0.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
>>
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> Oh yeah, you definitely need the trimmed hash.
>
>> I'm ok with the development versions having a trimmed hash if you
>> would find it useful.
>>
>
> I think having build + hash will be very convenient for pre-release versions - it'll be monotonically increasing (making NMI happy) and refer to a specific place in the source code (making devs happy).
>
> Still - for (non-daily) tagged builds, we should drop any extensions and just do "condor-7.7.5".  Adding the build number in release would just be confusing for external folks.

This would require a process change on our part to issue a final
condor-.7.7.5 RPM (with no build tag, etc) in order to not have the
same problems that is driving this change.  We'll discuss it more in
the FW meeting on Monday.



>
> Brian
>
>> -scot
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Scot,
>>>
>>> Why don't we do something more standard for pre-releases:
>>>
>>> condor-<X.Y.Z>-0.<release>.git.<git hash>
>>>
>>> where <release> is a monotonically increasing number (may be build number, I suppose).
>>>
>>> However, I'd strongly prefer this not be done for the final build, just to not clutter up the package number.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>> On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Scot Kronenfeld wrote:
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>>>> I am planning to rename the tarballs and native packages that we
>>>> distribute.  Here is the proposed name format:
>>>>
>>>> condor-<X.Y.Z>-1.b<NMI Build ID>.<extension>
>>>>
>>>> For example:
>>>> condor-7.7.5-1.b24243.i686.rpm
>>>> condor-7.7.5-1.b24243.deb_6.0_amd64.deb
>>>> condor-7.7.5-b24243.tar.gz  (we will remove the 1. for tarballs.
>>>> It's a native package revision number that isn't useful for tarballs)
>>>>
>>>> The reason for this change is to easily distinguish between
>>>> pre-releases of Condor.  NMI has requested this because it is causing
>>>> them pain when we have them update from one pre-release to another in
>>>> the same Condor release.
>>>>
>>>> Any comments or questions?
>>>> -scot
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