On 4/23/06, nigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless i am mistaken, is this not the main difference between > a versioned distro and an unversioned/unstable development distro? > > It seems to me that if OE did as you suggested then someone would > have to continually be modifying bb files to adjust cvsdates just > to atleast be within a few days/weeks, which sounds like a very > large task concidering that could potentionally be a couple thousand > packages ... > > But i am interested to hear what the general concensus is on the topic, > as your statement on bandwidth is very valid not only for SF, but all > the servers that we pull "current" files from. >
The number of bbfiles which are part of a "normal" build (opie or gpe images mainly) which have a floating SRCDATE is fairly small. I think that most SCM packages have a fixed SRCDATE as we want to use something known working. Using a floating SRCDATE for packages which are built by others is, in most cases, not a very good practice. It causes everyone to have different versions of a package installed depending on when they built it. This also can easily cause people to have problems which are caused by a checkin on one day which has been fixed on another day. Basically what I'm saying is that using raw builds from an SCM is a bad idea. It's a personal choice that a single developer should make if they want to follow the development of a package personally. I think that we should switch any bbfile which has a floating SRCDATE to a fixed one. If noone comes forward to set one I suggest either "today" or the last build of the package in a release of some kind (Familiar/OZ/etc). This way we have a known set of packages and it stays this way. If a user or developer finds a bug with a package they can try a newer SRCDATE and see if it works better. If it does then we can switch to the new SRCDATE. > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:28:34 -0700 > "Justin Patrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (sending back to the list) > > > > It's not that we need to cache dailies of gaim. We need to set a date > > in the bbfile, say...*today* and leave it there. Then, when someone > > takes an interest or someone files a bug report, we change it to > > sooner. That's all there is to it. There's no reason all of us should > > be recompiling gaim and increasing SF.net's anonCVS bandwidth like > > this. > > > _______________________________________________ > Oe mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe > -- Justin Patrin _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
