[packager interface suggestion] Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

Henrik Nordström henrik at henriknordstrom.net
Thu Dec 23 00:09:30 UTC 2010


tis 2010-12-21 klockan 13:02 -0500 skrev Matt McCutchen:

> updates-testing explicitly.  Either variant of the approach has the
> danger though that because a build needs one thing from updates-testing,
> it will end up getting something else from updates-testing that the
> maintainer didn't expect.

With BuildRequires fallback on updates-testing as proposed the risk for
that is minimized. Only if that specific BuidRequires in turn have
dependencies which can only be satisfied from updates-testing.

Regards
Henrik



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