Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] going to need a 2.0.53-rc8
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:28:47
Message-Id: 20051114152742.GA11268@nightcrawler
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] going to need a 2.0.53-rc8 by Jason Stubbs
1 On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:24:02AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Monday 14 November 2005 00:46, Jason Stubbs wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 13 November 2005 11:52, Brian Harring wrote:
4 > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:19:55AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
5 > > > > On Sunday 13 November 2005 04:00, Brian Harring wrote:
6 > > > > > *cough* that's that funky _p1 you're using there? :)
7 > > > >
8 > > > > patchlevel... I think it gives a stronger impression that 2.0.53 is
9 > > > > distinct from 2.0.54. Is distinct the right word? I mean that it kind
10 > > > > of shows that 2.0.53 is done but there was something that needed to be
11 > > > > fixed quickly.
12 > > >
13 > > > 2.0.53.1 vs 2.0.53_p1 vs 2.0.53.p1 ... either of the three indicates
14 > > > 2.0.53 had minor fix tagged onto the base 2.0.53 release...
15 > > >
16 > > > > Given
17 > > > > portage's history of using lots of dots, 2.0.53.1 doesn't have as much
18 > > > > impact. Is the "*cough*" a complaint of sorts?
19 > > >
20 > > > Well, knowing what you mean by pN, I'm just going to gesture wildly at
21 > > > my earlier email of "lets fix the whacked out versioning now". ;)
22 > >
23 > > So then my suggested 2.0.53_p1 should be 2.0.54 and what is currently
24 > > referred to as 2.0.54 should be 2.1.0?
25 >
26 > Any thoughts on this? If we use 2.0.54 for the fix for this, that can go into
27 > ~arch before 2.0.53_pre7 goes to .53 and arch without versioning getting
28 > screwed up. I'm still pretty sure 2.0.53 will be stable (at least on some
29 > arch) in under 48 hours and the fix for this should really go out at the same
30 > time or before...
31 Works for me.
32 ~harring