* Daniel J Beauregard ([email protected]) wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:40:32AM -0700, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > > Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:40:32 -0700 > > From: Glenn Lagasse <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] When development repository will be updated? > > To: Harry Putnam <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > * Harry Putnam ([email protected]) wrote: > > > Shawn Walker <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Pablo Le?n wrote: > > > >> Hi > > > >> > > > >> The develpment repository (pkg.opensolaris.org/dev) have not been > > > >> updated after 2009.06 release, > > > >> thats 111b. While it seems that SXDE is already on 116. > > > >> > > > >> I understand that while you were preparing 2009.06 there was not > > > >> updates, but it puzzles me why there are no updates after that. > > > > > > > > Because the people that build and prepare the release were at > > > > CommunityOne or JavaOne the week of May 31st, and needed the week > > > > after to recover. Then this past week was needed for catch up and > > > > prepare the next release :) > > > > > > > > As someone else already mentioned a new build should be available > > > > today or tomorrow. > > > > > > What development repository are we talking about here? What I get by > > > updating at /dev/ is build 112 is there a 4 version jump to 116 or > > > what? > > > > The last release pushed to /dev was based on build 111 with some > > critical fixes pulled in from later builds. This was then pushed to > > /release for 2009.06. Since it takes time to stabilize a build in /dev > > in preparation of releasing it generally in /release, newer builds after > > 111 were not imported into /dev. > > > > It wouldn't make sense to go back now and start importing all of the > > 'missed' builds so the next build slated to populate into /dev is 116. > > If I may throw in my two cents, I think it would be nice to have a > repository setup to take every build, essentially doing for IPS > installations what SXCE is for older-type installs. I had first thought > that /dev served this purpose, but it seems that when a build candidate > is snapshotted for an OpenSolaris 20XX.XX release, it serves as that > snapshot and baseline instead.
Well, once we push upstream consolidations to build their bits in IPS format instead of SVR4 there won't be these types of delay since we won't have to hand-crank a process to get all of the bits converted from SVR4 to IPS along with testing and all that. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
