updates-testing is not useful
Christopher Aillon
caillon at redhat.com
Sat Jun 9 16:15:50 UTC 2007
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Christopher Aillon <caillon <at> redhat.com> writes:
>> I could either provide the packages on other webspace i control and link
>> to it in bugs, or say "Hi. I built teh packages for you to test but you
>> can't test them right now. I don't really know when though cuz I can't
>> control it. Um, Real soon now! Honest! Keep checking. lolz"
>
> You can link directly to the Koji build results. Just make sure you use http
> links and not https, because last I checked the https refused to do anything
> without a client certificate (which you and I have, but the average user
> doesn't ;-) ).
That still doesn't make updates-testing useful. If it's not being
downloaded from updates-testing, then updates-testing is not useful.
The only benefit to updates-testing right now is that packages get
signed, but that doesn't help if I'm pushing out unsigned packages to
people for testing.
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