On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:20 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > For fedora-virt folks, we have a "virt-preview" repository, the general > idea being: > > - a repo where you can pull f11 builds of the latest rawhide virt bits > > - purely for people who want to help with testing f12 virt, but > aren't willing to run rawhide > > - it's not about making new features available to f11 users, it's > about allowing f11 users to get involved with f12 development > > - if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces - we'll do our best to > fix problems specific to this repo, but in reality we care more > about problems which affect stock f11 or rawhide/f12 > > - we're trying to keep the limit the packages in the repo to purely > virt related packages - e.g. right now we need something from f12 > selinux-policy, but I'm hoping we can get added in an f11 update > rather than pulling in the f12 version and breaking non-virt stuff > > It hasn't been around long, but it's working well and we're getting > valuable testing from it. The only thing we're missing is that we can't > add virt-preview packages to the buildroot. We're considering switching > from koji to mock for the builds because of this. > > With a little automation, I think this model could work fairly well for > the likes of GNOME. This is essentially what I wanted to create with KoPeRs. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/KojiPersonalRepos -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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