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
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