On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:40:56 +0300, Evangelos Foutras >> <foutrelis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> Let me underline again that [staging] would be no regular repo that >>>>>> would be used by anyone directly. It mainly meant for collecting >>>>>> rebuilds. >>>>> >>>>> However, it would have to be used by anyone wanting to rebuild a >>>>> package against a new library that has been pushed to [staging]. >>>>> Therefore, it would need to be mirrored and added to /etc/pacman.conf >>>>> in our [testing] chroots. (By `our [testing] chroots' I mean the >>>>> chroots that developers and TUs have been using until now for building >>>>> packages for [testing].) >>>> >>>> No, it doesn't need to be mirrored. Developers have always had direct >>>> access to this, ask on the developer private list if you don't know >>>> the URL. >>>> >>>> -Dan >>> >>> Oh, neat. Can we, TUs, get access to it too? (Unless we already do and >>> I missed it.) >> >> ATM there wont be a need to have TUs access this repo. The main reason >> of excluding it from mirroring is to remove it later when we decide that >> this idea wasn't that great. We might think about mirroring it later >> though..its just the db file anyway as the packages will be kept in a >> pool. The only downside is that nobody should actually use that repo. >> (by thinking it would similar to Debians experimental) >> >> -- >> Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre > > I'm not sure what you mean with `at the moment', but if any rebuild > that affects [community] packages goes into [staging], TUs will need > access to it so the affected packages can be rebuilt. Also, it would > be desirable to immediately have access to the private mirror as this > eliminates any delay between the time when new packages get committed > to [testing] and the moment they reach the mirrors. Pierre seems to have forgotten about community-testing I guess. :) -Dan
