On 04/03/11 12:42, Imre Kaloz wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:05:02 +0100, Mark Vels <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>
>>> in my opinion is that the developers community of OpenWRT has no
>>> interest in keeping a tagged packages tree.
>
> Right
Did you forget the <sarcasm> tags here?
>
>> Please add at least a revision number in feeds.conf for anything else
>> than bleeding edge! Time to grow up!
>
> <sarcasm>
> Sure, and you would have all the secholes and obsolete software as well. 
> Sounds awesome.
> </sarcasm>
That is why you push new releases. Nothing against updating package versions 
_as long as it happens in a controlled
manner_! Committing a new feeds.conf with new tags and/or revision numbers 
would be such a way to do that. These are two
different discussions!

Right now the exact software that is being build is dependent on the state of 
numerous repositories (1 plus the number
of feeds that are enabled in feeds.conf).
By having the tags,revision numbers or git refs in feeds.conf that would be 
reduced to exactly 1.

>
>
> P.S: If you need a specific revision for bugtracking/testing, you should be 
> smart enough to figure out how to get there.

Oh? There is no way to tell what the current revision of the packages svn 
repository was at the time when I checked out
backfire@24953 and ran scripts/feeds without me having access to my original 
working directory (okay, other than bisect
the repository and see what revision was actual on that date)
This scenario is exactly why organisations use source control systems to 
prevent problems like this (laptops get stolen,
hdd crash etc...). Therefore a repository should define the complete state of a 
software build, including 'external
sources' like feeds.

I did not intend to mock anybody by saying "time to grow up". I said it because 
I think that some are forgetting that
OpenWrt is also used by bigger organisations which have just a few extra 
requirements to make it fit for them.

Thanks,

Mark


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