Another great update

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:02:46 -0500, Orcan wrote:

> You can ask for
> removal from the buildroot override as soon as you are done building
> your package. In fact, Releng explicitly asks us to tell them when we
> are done so they can remove the override.

That's inconvenient and limiting. You can only work on your test updates
when the buildroot override is still active. In case you need to fix the
test updates, you depend on the buildroot override again. The entire
koji buildroot override business is just poor man's means to prevent
upgrade-mad packagers from introducing incompatible builds whenever
they like.

> This is one part of my model which works but is not perfect. If this
> can be automated, or a packager interface is written for overrides,
> then we are in business.

Not for overrides, though, but for custom buildroots that would be
independent from the primary dist buildroot. An interface to let
packagers activate such buildroots, and releng to control whether
to merge the new builds done in those buildroots with the primary
dist.