On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:23:00AM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: > I don't agree: I suppose that mandrakesoft has an automated build > procedure, a warning will probably go unnoticed, while a package that > fails to build will surely get a maintaner attention. The result will be > many less broken packages (I hope).
The developer should be doing a build on their own machine *BEFORE* they upload it to any system that is going to do an automated build. And ports should only be building packages that have already been built and tested on i586. Unfortunately, so many times people upload packages without bother to even test them. Yes mistakes will get made. But I have to wonder how packages with syntax errors in the perl scripts get uploaded.... Only thing I can see is that someone didn't bother to test the package first. Ultimately this small change will not solve the problem of untested rpms that are screwy. It will still be a problem, until developers take responsibility for their packages. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols
