RE: New field proposed, UUID
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [mailto:shaleh@valinux.com]
> > Sorry, I'm not a Debian developer so honestly don't know
> all the policies or
> > processes behind making debs. But, it seems clear to me
> that if you use the
> > pkg+version+arch as your UUID then a change in the md5sum
> caused by adding a
> > signature would not effect the "UUID" and therefore be
> moot. When I say any
> > change in the "binary package" I mean any change in the
> binary files that
> > get installed when the package is installed. I'm not
> talking about a change
> > in the deb file itself.
> >
> > Or am I totally confused?
>
> you are not confused, just not seeing everything (-:
>
> user does:
> $ apt-get source
> $ cd source
> $ dpkg-buildpackage # this builds the deb
>
> this will build a deb with the exact same name+arch+version
> as the one he
> downloaded. However the tool that built it will add a
> different UUID because
> these are generated at build time. So NEW UUID does not
> equal release UUID and
> we know something happened.
>
> Bumping the version of a kernel makes sense, but what if i
> comipile a package
> because I did not like the maintainer's choice of compile
> options? The current
> build tools do not make too much differentiation between a
> user compiling a deb
> and the actual maintainer -- so when would the version get bumped?
The "easy" answer to that is that the version should automatically get
bumped for user builds much like the kernel compile # is for Linux. The
maintainers, when generating an "official" version, can specify the exact
version when they compile the package, but it should automatically increment
for user builds. Possibly not the "main" version number, but a sub-version
number or equivalent.
Fred Reimer
Eclipsys Corporation
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