Hi Peter, Am 30.12.2012 um 20:21 schrieb Peter FELECAN <[email protected]>: > "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <[email protected]> writes: >> The 'allpkgs' directory does contain a history of packages, but it >> doesn't contain all transient (and often broken) 19 different versions >> of MySQL that happened to be in unstable for 2 days, but only the 3 or >> 4 versions that are actually used somewhere in our catalogs. I thought >> that was good enough. If you disagree, I will put the 24GB of junk >> back in allpkgs; but I remain unconvinced that they are actually >> useful. > > Isn't the set allpkgs the union of all the named releases, e.g. dublin, > kiel, &c. ?
No, allpkgs is the collection of all packages ever released to any of the catalogs (with the exception of experimental). > If that is true we must offer only that. To offer all the > instances of our packages that were produced over the time can be a > waste of resources, material and spiritual, i.e. is very difficult for > someone to create a coherent set of that even if he's perusing the > source control system's history of the recipes. Consequently, I support > Maciej proposition. It is meant as a reference for reproducing issues. Also I compare old versions of a package with a recent one from time to time if I think we have a regression. Best regards -- Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
