Re: osabi

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 20:21, Havard Eidnes <he%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> currently the osabi-NetBSD package is versioned with the full OS
> version, e.g.
>
>   osabi-NetBSD-10.0
>
> However, we try to maintain full compatibility between 10.0,
> 10.1, 10.2 etc.  So ... would it make sense to use just the major
> version of the OS to number the package, so that we instead just
> have
>
>   osabi-NetBSD-10
> [...]
> Opinions?

I agree it would make sense to use the major version for releases (and
release branches). I wonder if it should keep the minor for -current
(with the kernel version as a rather poor proxy for changing userland)

If we ever had a case where we need to different osabi for a minor
release we can always adjust the osabi package to build differently
for that release (which gives us the fallback)

David