Re: [opensuse-gnome] [Fwd: [GNOME Maint.] Gnome in OBS setup]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 09:08 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:

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-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Adrian Schröter To: gnome-maintainers@suse.de Subject: [GNOME Maint.] Gnome in OBS setup Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:04:05 +0200 Mailer: KMail/1.9.51 (Linux/2.6.25.4-10-default; KDE/4.0.82; x86_64; ; )

Hi,

I was told that Gnome projects does now build against the :Update repos instead of the plain base distros which provide the GA version.

This is usually a bad idea because

1. It does trigger unneeded build load and force users to download more packages without need. 2. It can create incompatibilities, since a build on a updated system might not work on a GA version. While a compile on GA should always work on a updated system. The only exception are kernel modules here (and libzypp on 10.1)

Can you tell me a reason why you need to compile against the :Update projects ?

We don't need to, but we discussed it as a) good to encourage updating b) more common now that its default to get updates. -JP -- JP Rosevear Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org