RPM submission procedure
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Jan 7 21:41:34 UTC 2004
Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:34:06PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Once again, I run 37 projects which I would like to make available in the
> > Fedora repository. I'm trying to develop a way I can ship RPMS, or
> > equivalent metadata from which the Fedora project can build RPMs,
> > automatically every time I do a point release.
>
> But do you want every automatic point release propogating to the release
> repository without human testing ?
In many cases yes. About thirty of those projects are very stable;
point releases are mainly for things like porting fixes and should go
straight to the street. Maybe half a dozen have testing issues on each
release; those I would direct to your unstable repository.
> I can see clearly that you want to automate it for your own package
> trees so that people can effectively subscribe to 'fetchmail of the day'
> or similar things. For that you might want to look at Dag Wieers stuff
> since he's rolling 500+ packages for several releases all the time.
Pointer?
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