On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:03 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:58 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > It also would require multiple CVS branches, one for security, one for > > adventurous, as well as different buildroots to go along with those, > > since you wouldn't be able to build a security update for a gnome > > package against the newer adventurous gtk and expect it to work on the > > older GTK, likewise if you had to modify a gnome package to work with > > newer gtk, you dont' want those modifications in the way if/when you > > need to do a conservative security update for it later. > > Oh I forgot, you also need -testing versions of each of those repos, so > for any release, you could have updates, updates-testing, experimental, > and experimental-testing repo options and build targets and buildroot > shuffling going on. WHAT FUN! Mandriva has a /testing repository for /updates, but not for /backports, on the basis that /backports is fundamentally unstable so you may as well just do your testing in the repo. This works fine, so far. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
