bugish: port not being rebuilt

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:14:09 -0500
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 10:06 +0200, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:
> > [ writting from webmail, sorry for the bad formatting ]
> > 
> > On Thu, November 27, 2008 08:29, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 07:52 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:41:10 -0500
> > >> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 23:39 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

 [ .. ]

> > >> > > I have a feeling this situation (existent up-to-date package,
> > >> > > uninitialized entry in the DB) can happen after an Tindy
> > >> > > upgrade.
> > >> >
> > >> > No, this shouldn't be the case.  An upgrade will not reset port
> > >> > build entries in the DB.
> > >>
> > >> Well, no, an update leaves you enough times w/o any entry in the
> > >> tables. BTW, for the next updates I'll work on a "ALTER
> > >> TABLE ..." instead of current "DROP TABLE / CREATE TABLE"
> > >> upgrade for mysql since I  can't afford to lose QAT tables data.
> > >
> > > The 2.x to 3.0 upgrade was a special case.  Even in that case,
> > > virtually all table data was preserved.  However, all other
> > > upgrades (e.g. from 3.0.2 to 3.1) used ALTER TABLE syntax.
> > 
> > Speaking of which, I really think it would be nice to have the
> > compleate DS version in the database (major.minor.micro); think of
> > the port users that, for one reason or an other can't update
> > immediatelly after a release is out and they end up doing the
> > update from 3 releases behind.
> 
> The major.minor.micro dsversion is stored in the database.

 # /usr/local/tinderbox/scripts/tc configGet | grep DS
__DSVERSION__=3.1

Where should I look for the micro?

> The micro version is only used when static data changes occur.  The
> upgrade framework has always supported upgrading from a release a few
> revs back with the notable exception of the 2.x to 3.0 jump.> 

Very good :)

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