Am 18.11.2010 22:24, schrieb Terje J. Hanssen:
Den 16. nov. 2010 12:03, skrev Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
Hi
there is this problem, that Factory is sometimes broken but it would be nice if people had a safer way to test new software even between milestone-releases (which are manual factory-snaphots).
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It is about creating a snapshot of Factory whenever it passes all basic automated tests (aka critical path) - preferably with minimal human intervention (aka hard work) needed. I have much of the automated testing done, so what is missing is a way to trigger+do the snapshotting.
Do I understand you right that Factory iso sometimes are broken and should undergo a better QA testing on each build before being published?
The current Factory distribution (not only isos, but mainly repos to use with "zypper up") does have uses, too. But often enough, bugs creep in there and can prevent developing+testing+using this completely. So my idea was to have this backup repo of factory that gets updated 2-7 times a week, but only if automated tests showed that it was good. e.g. during last week, you could not install factory for 36h so it would have been nice to have something older (yet still newer than MS3)
I.e comparing the current builds for Milestone-3 with Factory, we have
openSUSE-NET-Build0845-x86_64.iso 08-Nov-2010 21:42 161M http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4-Milestone3/iso/
openSUSE-NET-x86_64-Build0876-Media.iso 18-Nov-2010 17:57 161M http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/
By the way, I've found myself soon on the latest Factory iso, or rather using online update to Factory with 'zypper', even if I started out with the latest Milestone distribution. This to find out if issues are solved before reporting new bugs or to test fixes after reporting bugs.
A question aside, after using 'zypper up' first: Why can thereafter 'zypper dup' suggest to downgrade some packages with the same repositories available? I thought that 'zypper dup' should upgrade at least to the same or newer versions than 'zypper up'.
yes, this can happen. updating is about finding solutions with certain constrains. e.g. "zypper up" should never propose to change vendors, but dup does.
Downgrading could happen if some new application is built against a specific old version of a library. Then to dup the application, it would have to downgrade the lib.
And then some people change their versioning scheme from xyz-20101119.rpm to xyz-1.0.rpm which might also count as downgrade.
Ciao Bernhard M.