Re: Some reasons I really dislike buildroot overrides and would like us to get rid of them soon

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On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 12:05:59AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 12:02 AM Adam Williamson
> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2022-12-04 at 19:27 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The examples you provide are definitely interesting. They all
> > > > essentially boil down to, well, "I know exactly how this process works
> > > > and I'm gonna take advantage of that to achieve the right outcome
> > > > behind the scenes".
> > >
> > > Yeah, those four examples are very good. But they all can be summed up as
> > > "we need this update that is in updates-testing (or possibly will soon be there)
> > > to apply to all subsequent builds". Thus, maybe it would be enough to replace
> > > buildroot overrides with a single switch that says "make this update visible
> > > in the buildroot *now*".
> >
> > Isn't that...what a buildroot override *is*, though?
> 
> Yes, but I guess the idea is that the workflow is simplified to allow
> you to submit an update and an override in one go.

Yeah. And also, by "single switch" I really mean "1 bit of information".
I.e. all the additional metadata: description, expiration date, owner, separate name
would be gone, replaced with the boolean change that the update is *also* visible
in the buildroot as long as its on the way to stable.

Zbyszek
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