Oliver Falk schrieb: > Thorsten Leemhuis schrieb: >> Dennis Gilmore schrieb: >>> [...] >>> if a build fails on a >>> secondary arch then it will not affect the primary arch. >> I agree with this scheme, but nevertheless one note: In this case it >> IMHO would be nice to normally(¹) give the secondary arch maintainers a >> small chance (three to seven days maybe?) to fix packages before the >> primary arch packages hit the repo to prevent this: >> >> day 0: foo-1.0.1-7 in the repos for i386, x86_64, ppc, sparc, ia64 >> >> day 1: foo-1.2.0-1 gets submitted to buildsys; fails on sparc and ia64; >> package gets pushed to the i386, x86_64 repos nearly immediately >> >> day 2: foo-1.2.0-2 fixes build on sparc and gets pushed to the i386, >> x86_64 and sparc repos >> >> day 3: foo-1.2.0-3 fixes build on ia64 and gets pushed to the i386, >> x86_64 sparc and ia64 repos >> >> Users of i386 and x86_64 that update daily would have had two package >> updates without any benefit for them :-( I'd like to aoid that if easily >> possible. > > Thorsten; Very good point, didn't even think about this possibility... > Maybe some extra step from (co-)maintainers and/or sub-arch maintainers > is needed here to finally push the package!? I think with the new updates system luke is working on we'll get a seperate "push" step for each package (correct me if I'm wrong) . We just need to tell packagers to wait a bit with pushing their packages in case build failed one some of the secondary archs. CU thl
