On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:54 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > Hey, > I was wondering if it might be useful if we made -sandbox targets for > all of the current fedora extras targets. The goal would be so that a > package maintainer could request a build of their package that was not > for release. > > The package would be submitted to the buildsystem and build in the same > environment, so everything would be the same, BUT it would sit in > another dir on buildsys.fedoraproject.org and never be released to the > general public. > > I'm thinking it would allow me to test out the build in a chroot w/o > having to set one up on their own machine. The sandbox repo would have a > short timespan on it's life. Packages would last there for something > like 5-7 days then be tmpwatch reaped. > > I'm thinking the targets would just be named like: > fedora-4-extras-sandbox. > > > So what do people think? Should we make it so? > > -sv Maybe one could request a build for the HEAD of CVS, without tagging, then one could make changes to the spec files without bumbing up the release tag. -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich
