On Wednesday 20 September 2006 21:50, Martin Vidner wrote: > 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.
As there has been no further discussion on this can I assume Martin Vidner's proposal is being evaluated? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
