Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (175 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:

> On 20/09/10 10:06, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> >
> >   
> > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > >     
> > > > Over the weekend, I did a review of this as well:
> > > >
> > > > a) doxygen didnt make it easier (fixed in sr#46588)
> > > > b) gtk-doc injects its current version into XML and HTML files 
> > > > (bnc#635376)
> > > > c) massive usage of __DATE__ __TIME__ proposed alternatives in #bnc635351
> > > >
> > > > d) still images, pdf's and other documents, either generated by htmldoc,
> > > > dvips (etc..) set the current creation/modification date on generated
> > > > docs to the build time instead of the source file's.
> > > >       
> > > Thanks.  Looking at the updates my test machine running FACTORY has
> > > seen over the last ten days, this is really a lot.  Hopefully those
> > > initiatives of yours will help cut this down!
> > >
> > > 20100909:
> > >
> > >   725 packages to upgrade, 26 new, 3 to remove, 3 to change arch.
> > >   Overall download size: 767.3 MiB. After the operation, additional 15.5 
> > > MiB will be used.
> > >
> > > 20100913:
> > >
> > >   1225 packages to upgrade, 4 new, 1 to change arch.
> > >   Overall download size: 1009.8 MiB. After the operation, additional 17.6 
> > > MiB will be used.
> > >
> > > 20100917:
> > >
> > >   709 packages to upgrade, 7 new, 1 to change arch.
> > >   Overall download size: 589.6 MiB. After the operation, additional 4.6 
> > > MiB will be used.
> > >     
> > Now somebody come and say this does _not_ make Factory unusable as
> > a way to develop and test openSUSE.
> >
> > Richard.
> Do what I do, and run most of the system on factory-snapshot, and update
> only selected packages when bugs you care about are fixed (or when
> someone asks you to test a certain package).
>
> No excuses.

Hm, what works for me is keeping my system on openSUSE 11.1 and installing
factory versions of the packages I develop or care about.

Of course with a more usable Factory the idea would be to improve
test coverage also for packages you do _not_ specially care about
(not to mention that eventually more people will be able to use
Factory, or making an automated Factory-testing, similar to Debian
testing possible ...).

Richard.

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Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>
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