Bug #6885
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[Deployment] Add meaningful package versions to distro packages
Added by Brett Smith over 9 years ago.
Updated almost 8 years ago.
Description
As we improve our deployment infrastructure, it's happening more and more that we make improvements to our packages that don't change the underlying code: more accurate dependencies, changes in support scripts like arvados-api-server-upgrade.sh, etc.
Right now these changes don't trigger a new package build. We always use fpm's default iteration setting of 1, and fpm doesn't rebuild packages when it sees a destination package with the correct software version+iteration already on disk.
We need at least a manual process to be able to increment/set the iteration. Engineering to spec a solution.
- Subject changed from [Deployment] Add meaningful package verisons to distro packages to [Deployment] Add meaningful package versions to distro packages
Current expected solution: arvados-dev includes a configuration file that includes triples of (source package name, source version, package version). Whenever run-build-packages.sh builds source package name+package version, it should set the increment to package version. For any other build, it should not set the increment, or set it to 1 (the default).
- Description updated (diff)
The fpm-info.sh mechanism recently added to arvados-dev gives us another channel to do this. For packages with source outside the Arvados tree, you can have the corresponding fpm-info.sh say:
fpm_args+=(--iteration 2)
You could also do this with our own Arvados packages… except, of course, that will bump the software version as well. So maybe we want to use empty commits as our package rebuild trigger?
Empty commits don't work to trigger new package builds for our own packages, since they look for commits that affect the specific component. So we still need an out of band mechanism to specify package iterations for those.
We're still agreed on the concept of maintaining a file of triples with package name, source version, and package iteration. Do that.
- Target version changed from Arvados Future Sprints to Kanban
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- Assigned To set to Ward Vandewege
- Target version changed from Kanban to 2017-01-18 sprint
This was fixed as part of #10858
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