Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

[Bryan G. <Bry...@HP...>]

Bruno,

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:13:20PM +0000, Cornec, Bruno (Linux Consultant) wrote:
> I still have one remaining issue.
> 
> The current ChangeLog files (that pb uses to create %changelog entries
> for .spec file) doesn't content anythink concerning the version it
> applies to.

Hmm, you have pointed out one complete oversight on my part (that
is not maintaining the ChangeLog ... for a very long time).  Whoops!

> What I mean is that for mondo e.g. I have:
> 
> # $Id: ChangeLog 1679 2007-10-11 23:24:45Z bruno $

I can certainly add the # $Id: $, yet for CVS, this really only reflects the
revision of that particular file.

> MONDO CHANGES
> 
> 2.2.5 (2007-10-11)
> - Build process adapted to use pb http://trac.project-builder.org (Bruno
>   Cornec)
> - Fix #137 and #3 issue with large exclude list (> 1000 chars) (Bruno Cornec)
> [...]
> 
> 2.2.4 (2007-07-06)
> - Size of DVD is 4482 (or more surely 4480 to avoid problems - used everywhere) (Bruno Cornec)
> - New Hardware migration guide with P2V (Eric Montaut/Gallig/Renaud/Bruno Cornec)
> [...] etc
> 
> 
> Which allows me to easily process that.
> 
> I do not really care about format in itself (I will have to provide a
> converter), but I care about info such as version and date.

Actually, AFAICT, the format is completely standard:

	http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/changelogs/guile-changelogs_3.html

and in fact this was the reference for the original templates used.
 
> Currently we have:
> 
> 2005-09-27      Bryan Gartner   <bry...@hp...>
> 
>         * incorporated v4 of the LinuxCOE System Designer
> 
> 2005-08-01      Bryan Gartner   <bry...@hp...>
> 
>         * automated the integration of the LinuxCOE System Designer
>           to a system, and partitioned the package into modules
>           for each distribution
> 
> Would it be at least possible to add the version concerned ?
> (Which goes back to my question on version management from the other day
> BTW).

So, not really sure where to go on this one (other than poke myself to
update this as changes are made).  That said, the debian/changelog file
which should be maintained (and was created) by the dch command does
have a slightly different format.  Color me confused on how to proceed.

bryang