Re: propose repo nomenclature

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 06:04:39PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 8.0_RELEASE and 8.0_STABLE probably really should have the same ABI.
> But that should not be about CHECK_OSABI, which is about internal
> interfaces.   I am not sure where it is written down or if, but the
> whole osabi package is confusing.   The problem is that we don't have
> version counters for each micro part of a possible system ABI.   So
> 8.0_STABLE at one point and 8.0_STABLE at another point are not
> necessarily compatible in the pkgtools/osabi sense.

If they are not, something bad happened (and it is a bug). After very
bad experiences during the 7.0 -> 7.1 time frame, releng is now using a
much more strict pullup policy. As we have dropped the tiny branches,
we can not afford any ABI incompatibilities.

This rule basically was always there, but now is spelled out more explicitly
in the pullup rules and also (hopefully) will be enforced strictly.

So there is no point for pkg_add or osabi to treat any member of the
netbsd-8 family differently. Same should apply later to the netbsd-9 or
newer branch. Unfortunately it was not true fur netbsd-7 prior to 7.1,
but in a few months this should be a relict of the past ;-)

Martin