RE: New field proposed, UUID
There should be a happy medium ground where *ANY* change to a deb -- that
effects what is actually installed on a system when the package is
installed, results in a version update. But, a "internal signature by the
archive maintainer" would not, assuming that is in the deb header and does
not effect what is actually installed. I don't see the argument against
this.
Fred Reimer
Eclipsys Corporation
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Collins [mailto:bcollins@debian.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:44 PM
> To: Itai Zukerman
> Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org; debian-policy@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: New field proposed, UUID
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:08:22PM -0500, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> > > Sooner or later sigs will start traveling around with
> .deb's (that's
> > > another discussion, save it for later, it is coming
> soon). When those sigs
> > > are changed or updates by the archive maintainers or the
> release manager,
> > > the md5sum of the package will change, but the UUID will
> remain the same.
> >
> > I would prefer that *any* modification to a .deb increment its
> > version.
>
> That would be bad. Do that and then the Packages file needs
> regenerating,
> the package needs to be re-signed by everyone, and things
> will get upgraded,
> and apt[1] will redownload it all over again, just because of
> something
> changing like an internal signature by the archive maintainer (think
> signing all packages for a release).
>
> Ben
>
> [1] I know apt will do that now, but using a UUID, means apt
> can use that
> instead, and only upgrade packages who's version is newer, or
> who's UUID
> has changed (if the version remains the same).
>
> This also gives us another good reason for UUID's. We can now have a
> mechanism to do binary-only uploads for ports, without changing the
> version number (if you think binary-only uploads are harmless with a
> version change, then you haven't noticed the problems with
> sparc-potato
> when I did a binary-only upload of gnome stuff to fix some
> dep problems).
>
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