Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (65 mails)

[Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 01:21 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le lundi 20 octobre 2008, à 20:14 +0800, Magnus Boman a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > At the moment, we do all this work to get the latest GNOME into
> > GNOME:Factory. At the same time, we don't have a "Latest GNOME" for
> > poeple that run the currently released version of openSUSE.
> > I'd like to think that one way of serving our users would be to simply
> > enable it to build for Factory - 1 version (11.0 as of today) as well.
> >
> > This would require a couple of people that watch out for build failures
> > due to version dependencies that exists in Factory, but not in the
> > released product, and add/link them to G:F, but make sure they are
> > disabled for Factory.
> >
> > Packages such as hal and d-bus springs to mind.
>
> Hrm, I'm not sure I like the idea of adding old packages to G:F. But
> maybe that's just me (and because this would mean I'd need to work a bit
> to update the osc gnome stack ;-)).

If there is another way to automatically build whatever we stick in G:F
for 11.0, I'm all ears... Or perhaps we just create G:L (GNOME:Latest)
that links from G:F and have both Factory and 11.0 users use that...

> > Would this be something that we could do?
> >
> > I'd be interested in helping out to make sure stuff builds...
>
> I think it makes sense to have something like this. We had GNOME:STABLE
> in the past. Does anyone have experience with that?

I don't believe that we should use STABLE in the repo where we do this.
It sort of indicates that it's been tested :-)

Cheers,
Magnus

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