Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

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On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 13:20 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >> Note that I am not saying things should go into buildroot as soon as
> >> they are built, but as soon as they are in updates-testing. There is a
> >> difference. There will still be reasons to use tags/overrides.
> >
> > That makes the push process much more fragile/difficult.  If you use a
> > updates-testing build of package A, and package B (that depends on
> > package A) gets rebuilt, then you may have a package B that can't be
> > pushed to stable until package A gets pushed.  What if there's a
> > security update on package B that needs to go to stable ASAP?
> >
> 
> Then you build the security update asap, and put it in testing. That's
> another reason why I keep saying the the testing repo should allow
> multiple versions of the same package.

How are you going to make it build against the older version of A for
testing?
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