Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 02:04:04PM +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> 2010/12/12 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>:
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:36:29 +0100, Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just link all interesting packages you want to test in, and do your 
> > > > changes.
> > >
> > > Which for X libs would mean a huge number of links. Very practical
> > > indeed.
> >
> > And breaking other's repos is any better? During the day the repo was 
> > broken I
> > received 3 bugreports and various personal emails about this breakage. It
> > costs me a day and without the friendly help of my collegue Jiri Slaby it
> > would have taken much longer to fix the issue.
>
> First notice I have about this. But without knowing how much test the
> patch received before SR and how difficult it was to find a package
> that required the internal symbols, I would argue X11:XOrg is a repo
> people should expect can break from time to time, and this kind of
> "tests" should be allowed.

And let the repo's maintainer suffer from that? I disagree.

> But the important thing is why it took you a full day, with help, to
> fix it. Revert a patch should be trivial... but there is no easier way
> than "osc co -r <latest-1>; osc ci", true?

Of course the first approach was to only revert the changes package wise
one-by-one. In the end for each package the changes needed to be reverted. Due
to the huge dependancy chain in X11:Xorg together with our slow build service
this took a whole day.

Best regards,
Stefan

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