Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Question about Build ID's

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,
The Galileo Builder will not change anything. All contributed binaries 
are supposed to be signed and packed by the respective contribution. The 
builder won't even open the files.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

Oberhuber, Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure how many other projects do this, but the TM project
> embeds its build ID's into the feature description text shown in
> the about dialog (via about.mappings).
>
> Now it can happen that a build's contents does not change at all,
> but the build ID changes; in the TM case, our 3.1 release is the
> same as our RC4, but the build ID is "3.1" rather than "3.1RC4".
>
> I'm wondering how the Galileo Builder treats this. Given that our
> plugin and feature ID's have not changed, would the Galileo builder
> take our "old" plugins with the "3.1RC4" build ID embedded from
> some cache? For some plugins / features, the build ID might even
> be MUCH older. 
>
> Or does it fetch fresh data from our update site on every run,
> thus ensuring that the latest build ID, "3.1" is embedded?
>
> The stuff on /releases/galileo which I just checked contains a 
> mixture of "RC3" and "RC4" build ID's. I'm wondering whether there
> is a chance to rectify this... in my understanding, 
> /releases/galileo and .../staging are the same at the moment,
> so what about doing a clean build of .../staging when PDT and
> Teneo are done with their things?
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
> Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
> http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
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