Alpha Core 3 is available

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Oliver Falk schrieb:
> 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.
> 
> 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!?

I think with the new updates system luke is working on we'll get a
seperate "push" step for each package (correct me if I'm wrong) . We
just need to tell packagers to wait a bit with pushing their packages in
case build failed one some of the secondary archs.

CU
thl