Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 02:51:28 wrote Hans Petter Jansson:
> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:27 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag 18 September 2008 schrieb Vincent Untz:
> > > Just wondering: I don't know why we don't have an installable build
> > > yet, but are we noting the reasons somewhere so that we can make sure
> > > it won't happen in the next cycle?
> >
> > I guess the biggest mistake we keep on repeating: promising release dates
> > of betas :)
> >
> > Integrating such a big project as a linux distribution is a pretty
> > unpredictable process, so it's a miracle we manage the thursday that
> > often.
>
> In a perfect world I would have liked to have automatic, nightly media
> builds - or medias built automatically whenever the distribution is in a
> consistent state.
>
> Another idea would be to keep a repository that's always consistent, and
> a mechanism for identifying sets of packages that can be copied from the
> development repo to the consistent repo without breaking dependency
> consistency.
>
> I don't think this is impossible - there are other distributions out
> there that publish nightly media builds. Maybe there's something we can
> learn from those.

What do you think is our Factory lacking here ?

It is synced out only after nothing more is to build. Of course, if there is 
something broken inside, it gets synced out, until someone is fixing it.

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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