"Peter O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which brings me to a question. I had assumed that bootstrap packages first > get put in unstable/base, then when they are moved to stable they get added > to bootstrap. Should bootstrap packages be added to bootstrap at the same > time as unstable, or stable, or sometime in between? >
I'll record here the answer we arrived at on IRC. The goal should be, for the essential (or bootstrap) packages, to test and move to stable as quickly as we can. So in that sense, it shouldn't matter too much, but I agree that we probably want them in stable before we put them into the bootstrap directory. The case of dpkg-bootstrap is special though: this is a package which *only* goes into the bootstrap directory. (We don't put it in the regular tree, to prevent users from trying to install it which would be inappropriate.) In this case, the testing must be done internally by the fink-core group, and presumably we update dpkg-bootstrap at the same moment as the copy of dpkg in the bootstrap directory is updated. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
