On 06/25/2010 01:05 AM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
The bugfix was already in the pipeline so that the buggy kernel was only distributed for 20-40 hours and Build0675 is indeed good again. http://www3.zq1.de/opensuse/video/openSUSE-NET-i586-Build0685b.ogv http://www3.zq1.de/opensuse/video/openSUSE-NET-x86_64-Build0685.ogv
However, this again illustrates the point I tried to make at http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/06/12/improve-software-quality/
That is a good article. I agree that we are in somewhat of a downward spiral. As long as factory is so buggy that it cannot be tested, then no one can/will test, thus it gets even worse.
Until yesterday I only thought of "what could they do". But I found that I could do something about that, too. OpenSUSE is probably a "doocracy". A first step could be that I add to my mirror a "factory-testing" repo directory, that will only get a copy of factory after it passed automated tests. While this will need a few extra hours in the pipeline, it could prevent such breakages, thus improving on the experience for testers without having to wait on milestone releases (which even broke in the past, too, so factory-testing could be better than that in both quality and turn-around-time).
Good idea. It is necessary that it build, but certainly not sufficient. With the new repo, a user can be resonably certain that a new build will at least boot. If you are OK with the bandwidth, let me know when this is setup and I will publicize it in the "prerelease-beta" forum and in the weekly news.
As for the yast2-nfs-client issue I found this page useful. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=yast2-nfs-client&project=openSUSE%3AFactory
when you click on the green "succeeded" it shows yast2-nfs-client-2.19.3-1.1 to mention the fix for bnc#608166
this version is already on http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/noarch/. but maybe the fix was not good? Then the bug should be reopened.
That version works on both x86_64 and i386. I forgot that it is a noarch package, thus I didn't find it. It has been in Factory since June 18, and must have just missed RC1.
also in the news: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2010_fiveway&num=1
Well, openSUSE didn't shine in those tests, but it didn't fall flat on its face either. It would have been terrible if RC1 had failed to boot/install on their system. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org