sandbox targets

[Gérard Milmeister]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:54 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> Hey,
>  I was wondering if it might be useful if we made -sandbox targets for
> all of the current fedora extras targets. The goal would be so that a
> package maintainer could request a build of their package that was not
> for release.
> 
> The package would be submitted to the buildsystem and build in the same
> environment, so everything would be the same, BUT it would sit in
> another dir on buildsys.fedoraproject.org and never be released to the
> general public.
> 
> I'm thinking it would allow me to test out the build in a chroot w/o
> having to set one up on their own machine. The sandbox repo would have a
> short timespan on it's life. Packages would last there for something
> like 5-7 days then be tmpwatch reaped. 
> 
> I'm thinking the targets would just be named like:
> fedora-4-extras-sandbox.
> 
> 
> So what do people think? Should we make it so?
> 
> -sv
Maybe one could request a build for the HEAD of CVS, without
tagging, then one could make changes to the spec files
without bumbing up the release tag.
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Gérard Milmeister
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