I discovered the Jenkins Dynamic Parameter plugin
(https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+Dynamic+Parameter+Plug-in),
which will do what I want. I wrote a little Groovy code to generate the
version number in our preferred format, so that gets pre-populated as a
parameter to the bu
Historically, we have used Jenkins to build and package about 35 projects,
all on Debian Lenny 32 bit. We are now in the process of migrating to
Ubuntu Precise 64 bit systems, and we have a need to build some of our
projects on both of these architectures during the transition phase. A
perfect