On út 19. září 2006 08:40, Keith Goggin wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2006 22:36, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> Keith Goggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > 1. Would it be practical to develop a dummy update that could be >> > applied with YOU and or 'Software Updater'? >> >> For what do you want it? > > For Beta testers to test Yast YOU / Software Updater / RUG when no updates > are available.
Yes please, we in the yast team need this too. Too often we had difficulties in testing a change in YOU because there was no data to operate with. I understand that from the point of the view of the autobuild or maintenance teams this may seem difficult to provide. I have an idea that may make it easier: For a package foo.rpm, copy (rebuild?) the latest built version to foo-900-1.rpm, foo-990-1.rpm and foo-999-1.rpm. That way we have a high enough version that will be always applicable, plus two spare ones for the same round of testing. This triple should come for several packages: - a trivial package something that is always installed, but preferably leaf. suse-release? - a package that triggers reboot like the kernel. - a package that triggers packager restart To test scenarios with packager restart and without it, it seems useful to put these to a special update source, so that the tester can choose whether to include the packager-restarting patch. If we have trouble doing this with regular packages, I propose to include in the default distro tiny packages that exist solely as candidates for testing updates. -- Martin Vidner, YaST developer http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvidner --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
