Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 07:54:28 wrote Hans Petter Jansson:
> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 07:49 +0200, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 September 2008 02:51:28 wrote Hans Petter Jansson:
> > > 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.
>
> Of course, problems that can't be detected automatically (e.g. bad
> patches, bad upstream code and some classes of packaging bugs) will
> still get in - but dependency problems and packages that don't build at
> all still show up in the official Factory repos, and we can detect
> those.
>
> This makes me wonder if we couldn't establish a repo on top of the
> "breakable" one, which would automatically pull in packages that build
> successfully and don't cause any dependency problems (pulling sets of
> packages together when necessary to maintain dependencies). That repo
> will then always be consistent with itself, although it may contain
> older packages in some cases.

These are our devel projects, each package has one. For example changes on the 
KDE stack are taken from KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop.

> We could then generate installation media from that repo - and since
> many types of problems are already fixed (everything builds, all
> dependencies are satisfied, there are no file conflicts), we could do so
> more frequently.

You can do so, just apply the devel projects in addition to that in the 
product definition/kiwi. However, I can promise you, when apply all, you will 
never have a working system ;)

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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