Am Montag 24 August 2009 schrieb Michael Matz:
Hi,
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Magnus Boman wrote:
One way out of this dilemma is to have a repository not build against oS:F/standard/ (that is constantly changing), but only against oS:F/snapshot/ . The latter changes only at certain sync points (when the standard/ part has completely rebuilt once). If you do that you risk a breaking build when submitting to oS:F proper (because up until then you built against a slightly older version), but you at least can get work done.
It doesn't really help here since I have to build against GNOME:Factory and not oS:F as such. Basically all packages in G:F are blocked once G:F have been submitted to oS:F.
That's why I have said that G:F (or a variant thereof) needs to be based on oS:F/snapshot/ and you would work against that variant.
Yes, this is _exactly_ what should be done. Building against snapshot should be actually the preferred solution for all but a very limited set of projects out there. This also spreads the load a bit because on weekends openSUSE:Factory/standard would rebuild without blocking anything else and over the week GNOME:Factory would build _once_ (but it does that anyway :). Forbidding or mass replacing standard with snapshot is a bit too much IMO, because some repos _need_ to be in sync e.g. with the kernel ABI of openSUSE:Factory, but maybe it's the right approach to mass replace and then change that couple back. And then there is question when to sync snapshot. Right now it's done (if I remember) before full rebuilds, but it's possible to couple it with the publishing of /factory/repo/oss (in theory, I have no clue about the code in question :) Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org