Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (182 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 1. Februar 2010 12:11:09 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> Am Montag 01 Februar 2010 schrieb Adrian Schröter:
> > So you want to have this as manually user setting unrelated to building ?
> Exactly. We can later add a mechanism to take over the attributes into 
> building, but automatically picking upstream versions is too fragile, so 
> adding a reporting is the first step.I can also imagine a project setting
> that takes upstream versions automatically, but I don't think this should
> be the default.
>
> > Hm, I would go first to try to define URLs in our packages and try to
> >  automatically check for new versions, before I would add a manual option
> >  here.
> The URL of packages is the home page not the upstream tar ball.

Right now we have the official place for it in package meta data. But I agree
completely that it shouldn't be there.

However, we might should sync the data initially.

And it should not be named UpstreamTarballURL than IMHO. Maybe UpstreamHomepage 
?

> > How is this supposed to work ? Everybody can replace the attribute to
> >  report that there is a new version ?
> Yes, that was exactly the idea. We will have to experiment a bit, but I don't 
> expect huge SPAM potential. Of course not having history for attributes can
> become a problem - but as I said: we need to experiment.

Okay, but when it is experimental, I don't want it in OBS: namespace. This is 
what really everybody in his own instance is getting and should be able to rely
on (at least during 1.X timeline).

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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