Alpha Core 3 is available

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sat Mar 10 15:45:06 UTC 2007


Oliver Falk wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis schrieb:
>> Dennis Gilmore schrieb:
>>> [...]
>>> if a build fails on a secondary arch then it will not affect the 
>>> primary arch.
>>
>> I agree with this scheme, but nevertheless one note: In this case it
>> IMHO would be nice to normally(¹) give the secondary arch maintainers a
>> small chance (three to seven days maybe?) to fix packages before the
>> primary arch packages hit the repo to prevent this:
>>
>> day 0: foo-1.0.1-7 in the repos for i386, x86_64, ppc, sparc, ia64
>>
>> day 1: foo-1.2.0-1 gets submitted to buildsys; fails on sparc and ia64;
>> package gets pushed to the i386, x86_64 repos nearly immediately
>>
>> day 2: foo-1.2.0-2 fixes build on sparc and gets pushed to the i386,
>> x86_64 and sparc repos
>>
>> day 3: foo-1.2.0-3 fixes build on ia64 and gets pushed to the i386,
>> x86_64 sparc and ia64 repos
>>
>> Users of i386 and x86_64 that update daily would have had two package
>> updates without any benefit for them :-( I'd like to aoid that if easily
>> possible.
>>
>> Just my 2 cent.
>
> Thorsten; Very good point, didn't even think about this possibility... 
> Maybe some extra step from (co-)maintainers and/or sub-arch 
> maintainers is needed here to finally push the package!?
Does the secondary arch sig actually exist yet?  Sounds like we have a 
fair number of arch's and people now that it would be good for them to 
teamup.

    -Mike




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