two crashes

[Zachary Crownover]

All I'm saying is I'm going to be upset if HAMMER2 as the defaults is in
4.x instead of being a new major release.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:47 PM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:

> On 11/7/2014 22:34, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > The ABI for package purposes can be a little confusing during release
> > time.  The release is 4.0 but the current 'master' (now 'after' the
> > release) is 4.1.  For ABI purposes we round up to the nearest even
> > number so the current 4.1 master will look for '4.2' packages.  6 months
> > from now the current master will, in fact, become 4.2.  It's easier to
> > manage the binary repo and the mirrors and allows us to do continuous
> > package builds without having to juggle too many different names.  Each
> > binary package set is ~60GB or so.
> >
> > Maybe I over-engineered it :-)
>
> This is a blue moon issue.
> We were expecting the release to be 3.10, not 4.0.  The 3.10 packages
> had been in places for 5 months.  The transition from 3.9 to 3.10 would
> have been seamless.  Even when we switched to 4.0, the 3.10 packages
> were only a couple of days old.  But with the change to 4.0, we didn't
> have any packages, and the RC was released before we had an opportunity
> to build them.
>
> So it's only a problem at 4.0, 5.0. 6.0, and it's an avoidable problem
> on our side.
>
> John
>
>
>


-- 
Sincerely,

Zachary Crownover
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