Re: Perl disaster in the making
>> "Raphael" == Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> writes:
Raphael> Le Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 12:44:19AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski
Raphael> écrivait:
[GNOME-staging]
Raphael> How many developers were concerned by this staging area ?
Raphael> For the perl upgrade, ~250 packages have to be updated,
Raphael> involving 115 developers.
There are 183 binary packages, don't know about the developercount.
Also this doesn't matter at all. Uploads are made into the staging
area, not into Incoming. A hacked moves the packages into a dist like
structure. The area is kept aptable, so testing is easy.
When a consistent state is reached, you run dinstall in dry-run mode
over the area, and if there are no errors, simply move all packages
into incoming. That's it.
Raphael> That may be something useful, but nothing that is likely to
Raphael> happen if tools for creating and managing such a staging area
Raphael> aren't packaged.
Valid point, currently the tools are hacked standard tools. Let's wait
until Jules has cleaned them up.
Ciao,
Martin
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