--- a/usr/src/lib/install_common/__init__.py	Tue Aug 09 11:37:55 2011 -0400
+++ b/usr/src/lib/install_common/__init__.py	Tue Aug 09 14:34:48 2011 -0600
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@
 DC_LABEL = "DC specific"
 DC_PERS_LABEL = "DC specific persistent"
 
+# global version number for all of the consumers of the pkg5 API in the source
+# tree
+PKG5_API_VERSION = 66
+
 
 class CalledProcessError(subprocess.CalledProcessError):
     '''Expansion of subprocess.CalledProcessError that may optionally