Alpha Core 3 is available

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Sat Mar 10 10:55:49 UTC 2007


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!?

-of




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