Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing
Matt McCutchen
matt at mattmccutchen.net
Tue Dec 21 06:07:47 UTC 2010
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 01:29 +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> mån 2010-12-20 klockan 18:12 -0500 skrev Matt McCutchen:
>
> > That will work, assuming the user has permission to do the tagging; it
> > is essentially a buildroot override in reverse. So the question is just
> > what we want to optimize for: more testing of packages while they are in
> > testing, or less fallout when a package in testing is broken. Or if the
> > infrastructure problems are solved, we could use custom tags and get the
> > best of both worlds.
>
> Using the buildroots for testing is not the right approach for
> increasing the level of testing.
>
> Any use of testing packages while building should be requested by the
> specific build, not as a general blanket.
I feel the same way, I was just trying to be objective.
--
Matt
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