On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:35:31 -0600, Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Three more thoughts and I’ll shut up. (Is there a web page and > mailing list for this VCS-based archive project?)
Hi, Thanks for the interest, your comments are valuable. There is some information at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/ which points to this mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel There is also some overlap with http://vcs-pkg.org/ > Longer term, IIUC you could eliminate the source packages, but I > understand that it takes time to migrate. Yes, that's a goal. We want to get to the point where people don't dput source packages to upload (we already have source-only uploads in Ubuntu), they request a build from a bzr branch instead. Source packages will probably stick around for a while for various reasons: GPL compliance, similarity to Debian, mirroring, etc. > The main not-so-nice thing about only providing the tree would be that > whoever checks this would have to iterate over revisions looking for > that tree hash. To avoid this, it might even be worth just using the > revision (sorry for the wobble --- it just took me a while to understand > what you’re doing). Whatever tool you use to build the source package > and insert this field (bzr-buildpackage --ubuntu, I guess) could > disallow building from a dirty tree. I agree that you may have to iterate, but there will typically only be a couple of candidate revisions the way our system works, and having both the revision and the tree narrows the search further. I'm not keen on requiring a build from a clean tree, as that isn't how some developers would want to work, and so I feel that if a system that allows that isn't to difficult to achieve we should put the burden on the automated side. > Using just a tree hash would allow lower-level tools to compute the > hash. That is, as long as it is clear what format to use, dpkg-source > could compute the hash, or the archive software could compute the hash > itself and add it to Sources. Yes, that would also be a possibility. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
