Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:21:27 +0100, Ralf wrote: > On 12/16/2010 03:35 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to propose a small(ish) change to how updates to Fx and Fx-1 work. >> >> Currently we have to wait until package gets to stable for it to appear >> in buildroot. IMO this goes against the whole "testing" part of >> updates-testing. I'd like for packages to appear in buildroot as soon as >> they are in updates-testing. Reasoning: >> >> * Building deps is part of testing. If anything fails -> package >> should be withdrawn from testing and not pushed. >> >> There are a few corner-cases I could think of where this approach could >> cause a bit of headaches, but in those cases even current process >> wouldn't help us much IMO. >> >> Any opinions on this? > > +1, I had proposed somethings similar long time ago, but it was shot > down, then. -1 to test-updates entering the buildroot automatically. It would break the buildroot too often (think of ABI/API breaks and packaging mistakes) and reduce the predictability of builds. We would be building against untested packages, often unknowingly.

+1 to some way of automating koji buildroot overrides (perhaps based on FAS group membership such as provenpackagers) in order to remove the releng bottleneck.