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[Flavien Bridault <vlaaad AT sourcemage.org>]

Le jeudi 03 août 2006 à 06:59 -0700, Andrew a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:56:34AM +0200, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> > Le jeudi 03 août 2006 à 00:37 -0700, Andrew a écrit :
> > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:25:39AM +0200, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Not a big deal, but I have understood we should reset PATCHLEVEL 
> > > > >> when
> > > > >> upgrading...
> > > > > Correct. According to http://wiki.sourcemage.org/DETAILS, PATCHLEVEL
> > > > > should be removed when VERSION is changed.
> > > > 
> > > > My English is horrible but "should be" surely does not mean "must be".
> > > 
> > > Its "should be" in the context of, the software won't break if you
> > > don't. "Must be" would imply that something would not function properly
> > > otherwise. For example, a valid SOURCE_URL must be specified in order
> > > for downloading to work.
> > > 
> > > As I recall, the reason to reset PATCHLEVEL was so it was obvious to a
> > > user how many times a particular version has been patched. That was at
> > > the time the agreed upon and widely discussed purpose of that variable.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > I don't think developers reset it.
> > > Most of these updates are so absurdly trivial I dont know why they're
> > > still done "by hand". A script could do this for you then you.
> > > 
> > > sed -i '/PATCHLEVEL=/D' DETAILS
> > > 
> > 
> > The annoying part is the multi-versions spell. The PATCHLEVEL applies to
> > all versions so if you update only one of these, you can't reset it.
> > Unless to provide a PATCHLEVEL for each version within the if
> > condition ? Ex: 
> > 
> > if [ "$DEVEL" = "y" ]; then 
> >   VERSION=2.3.23
> >   PATCHLEVEL=2
> > else
> >   VERSION=2.2.34
> >   PATCHLEVEL=2
> > fi
> > 
> > That way you can reset safely, right ? I never noticed such a syntax
> > anywhere though... Just my two cents, unless this might be obvious for
> > some people (that was not for me until now ;-) ).
> 
> You'd probably want to do it that way.
> Thats how the glibc spell does it.
> 
> 
The firefox spell doesn't, although there are two versions (stable +
CVS). We should mention that somewhere...

> -Andrew
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