[ovirt-devel] [URGENT][ACTION REQUIRED] vdsm versioning system need to be fixed

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 12:06:32PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> +1
> 
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Martin Perina <mperina at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Yaniv Bronheim" <ybronhei at redhat.com>
> >> > To: "Martin Perina" <mperina at redhat.com>
> >> > Cc: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>, "Sandro Bonazzola"
> >> > <sbonazzo at redhat.com>, "Francesco Romani"
> >> > <fromani at redhat.com>, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, "devel"
> >> > <devel at ovirt.org>
> >> > Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 8:16:05 AM
> >> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [URGENT][ACTION REQUIRED] vdsm versioning
> >> > system need to be fixed
> >> >
> >> > I don't understand what's the different .. that's what we currently do.
> >> > Sandro complains that he can't upgrade latest stable which can be
> >> > 4.17.23
> >> > to latest snapshot which can be 4.17.19.88 \ 4.17.19-88 - yum can't
> >> > consider that as an upgrade and 4.17.19.88 can't fill HE requirement for
> >> > 4.17.23
> >>
> >> oVirt 3.6 stable release:
> >>   - current [1]: vdsm-4.17.23-0.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
> >>   - desired:     vdsm-4.17.23-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
> >>
> >> oVirt 3.6 stable snapshot:
> >>   - current [2]: vdsm-4.17.19-32.git171584b.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
> >>   - desired:     vdsm-4.17.24-0.1.git171584b.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
> >>
> >> oVirt master snapshot:
> >>   - current [3]: vdsm-4.17.999-680.gitd87d031.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
> >>   - desired:     vdsm-4.18.0-0.680.gitd87d031.el7.centos.noarch.rpm or
> >>                  vdsm-5.0.0-0.680.gitd87d031.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
> >>     (not sure what will be oVirt 4 vdsm version)
> >>
> >
> >
> > +1

the down side of that is that we'd need to forsake our ability to
release a new version by a mere `git tag`, and would have to include a
version bump commit instead.