Meeting notes for 6/10/2009

Attendees:
Karen, Ethan, Jack, Joe.

The agenda will be covering
- Scoping based on the items discussed in the mega-meeting
- Not keeping track of version boundaries

Warn user both in the console and log. Try to continue anyway.

    - breaking up warning messages between build numbers and full version number including date string.

For the build diffs the build numbers don't match print build number error and log the version numbers, etc.
Do we just log the message if it's just a time stamp mis-match? 

• No we print and log the same message for this simple time stamp mis-match
    as we do for the build mis-match.
  - The message will include something that indicates that what the user has done will have undefined results.

Note: Need to be able to do this version check before the install. Also need to tag images (cpio archinves etc) with this version string.

    - Use cases based on use type (the types that Dave mentioned)
        Types of users
            - moving from one stable release to the next (enterprise users)
            - moving every two weeks (every build)
            - installing nightly (test folks)
            - moving from one stable release to the next (enterprise users)
        - what are the expectations of these users?
            - All would need to have the same information presented, however only some would need that ability to turn off the installation attempt if a mis-match were found.

    - scope of the items we will attempt to fix when a mis-match
      is found.
        - zpool version
            - req for going backward and the need for a tag telling us
              what is the max version supported by ZFS for those bits.
        - boot archive
        - grub version
        - work around an older version of ipkg?
            - there are possible incompatibilities with older versions of ipkg.
            - we have req on IPS for a public interface for determining the version of the packaging version. visibility into ipkg versions. 

- manifest entry to set installation to fail if a version mis-match is found. The default is that it's allowed to continue but this can be set to stop the install if a mismatch is found.