On 2011-01-18 14:27:07 -0800, Malcolm Fernandes wrote:

We have a Project-A (1000+ packages) where we import some src rpms from another distribution on a periodic basis. Several other projects are built against the Project-A's repository. These other projects get de-stabilized because of the constant fluctuation caused by the imports of new src rpms in Project-A.

The goal is to create a stable snapshot of Project-A (let's call that Project-A-STABLE), once Project-A has been built and tested. This Project-A-STABLE will then be used by the other projects. When src rpms are subsequently imported into Project-A, it should not cause any re-builds in Project-A-STABLE.

How do you go about linking complete projects in OBS? Note sure if we should be using branch, linkpac, copypac, ...

Please outline the steps involved in: - creating the first snapshot (Project-A-STABLE ) - creating subsequent stable snapshots from Project-A to Project-A-STABLE.

The snapshot projects should preserve the revisions that it was branched off.

Thanks,

why not just use submitrequests to send changes from Project-A to Project-A-STABLE. then you basically get the same workflow as we have it with opensuse factory and its devel projects. the other option is: Project-A-STABLE uses links with revisions into Project-A. so when you want to update a package to a newer version, you just update the revision attribute in the link file. hth darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org