Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Fri Dec 17 18:36:53 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 13:20 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> > 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.

How does that solve the problem?  The point was that the new B may need
to go to stable before the new A is ready to go to stable, so there
needs to be a way (at least) to build it against the old A.

-- 
Matt



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